Tue May 16, 2023 – 4:01 pm EDTTue May 16, 2023 – 4:30 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Former President Donald Trump distanced himself from banning abortion once a heartbeat can be detected in a new interview while again refusing to clarify his own position on what to do at the federal level in America’s post-Roe landscape.
When asked by The Messenger about the six-week abortion ban signed in April by his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump said, “he has to do what he has to do. If you look at what DeSantis did, a lot of people don’t even know if he knew what he was doing. But he signed six weeks, and many people within the pro-life movement feel that that was too harsh.” When asked if he would sign a similar law, Trump would only say that he was “looking at all alternatives. I’m looking at many alternatives.”
The former president claimed credit for the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last summer overturning Roe v. Wade for “get[ting] us to the table,” which he claimed “nobody else could have done…but me.” During his term, Trump had the opportunity
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