US President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Donald Trump for his “terrible” actions against abortion rights during their first debate for the US presidential election.
“It’s a terrible thing what you did,” the Democratic leader said to his Republican opponent during their face-to-face meeting in Atlanta.
The American Supreme Court, profoundly reworked by the former president, overturned in June 2022 the famous Roe v. Wade jurisprudence which guaranteed the federal right of American women to abort, giving each state back its freedom to legislate on the issue.
About 20 US states have since adopted bans or restrictions on abortion.
Joe Biden argued that Donald Trump would be willing to enact legislation, if passed by a future Republican Congress, to ban abortion nationally or restrict it to “six, seven, eight or ten weeks” of pregnancy, ” something very conservative.”
Donald Trump defended that this question should now fall to the States: “it’s the vote of the people,” he said.
“I believe in exceptions in cases of rape, incest”, and danger for “the life of the mother”, he added. “I think it’s very important. For some no, follow your heart. »
Asked about the issue of the abortion pill, the former president also said he would not “block” it.
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