Donald Trump wants to let states across the country legislate on abortion

The former American president initially announced that he could support a national ban beyond 15 or 16 weeks.

Donald Trump affirmed, Monday April 8, that he wanted to give American states a free hand to legislate on abortion, appearing to reject a nationwide ban on this issue, at the heart of the presidential campaign. “The States will determine by vote or by law, or perhaps both. Whatever their decision, it must be law”declared the former Republican president in a video published on his Truth Social platform.

As a candidate again in November against Joe Biden, he himself prides himself on having, through his appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, resulted in the reversal of jurisprudence of June 2022 which canceled the federal guarantee of the right to ‘abortion. Since this decision giving states full latitude to legislate in this area, around twenty have banned or severely restricted access to abortion.

“It is the will of the people that counts”

“A lot (of states) will have a different number of weeks” as the pregnancy limit for an abortion, Donald Trump explained in his video on Monday. “Some will be more conservative than others, and that’s how it is. At the end of the day, it’s the will of the people that counts.”he says.

The Republican also accused Democrats of being in favor of abortion until the final months of pregnancy, and “even an execution after birth”. An unfounded assertion. In March, Donald Trump first indicated that he could support a national ban beyond 15 or 16 weeks. But he also felt that it was not up to the federal administration to decide on these questions, warning against the electoral cost of an overly conservative position on this eminently sensitive subject.