NEW YORK (Dagbladet): For the past couple of weeks, Trump has been on trial in the bribery case in New York, accused of falsifying documents to cover up a sexual affair with a porn actor. He is also charged in three other criminal cases.
At the same time, he is well positioned in the opinion polls to become US president again after the election in November. Now he has given an extensive interview to Time Magazine.
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Here he makes statements in a wide range of areas. Among other things, he talks about abortion, which has become one of the major election campaign issues in the US after the US Supreme Court removed the right to self-determined abortion by overturning the Roe v. Wade decision two years ago.
In the new interview, Trump says, among other things, that it must be up to the individual state whether they want to prosecute women who have abortions, and whether they want to monitor pregnant women.
The Supreme Court of the United States will start hearing on Thursday the case about whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution for influencing the election.
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– The states’ rights
The highly controversial decision from the Supreme Court came after Trump was allowed to appoint three conservative Supreme Court judges during his presidency. The majority thus shifted in a conservative direction.
Since then, the abortion issue has characterized large parts of the political debate in the United States.
Trump now believes that it must be up to the states to decide what kind of abortion laws they will have. This means, for example, that Arizona recently experienced an abortion ban from 1864 coming into effect. In Florida, a law recently came into force that prohibits abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy.
– You don’t need a federal ban. Roe v. Wade wasn’t so much about abortion as bringing it back to the states. So the states negotiate agreements. Florida will be different than Georgia. Georgia will be different than other places, says Trump in the interview with Time.
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When asked if he would sign a federal ban on abortion, Trump replied:
– It is about the states’ rights.
– Comfortable or uncomfortable
The ex-president also claims that such a ban will not be relevant because the Republicans will not get the more than 60 seats they need in the Senate to pass such a law.
Also when asked whether states should monitor pregnant women, so the authorities can know if they have had an abortion, Trump replies that it is up to the states. He also believes that it is up to the states whether they want to punish women who have an abortion.
– The states must make that decision. The states have to be comfortable or uncomfortable with this, not me, says Trump.
In 2016, however, Trump said during a televised rally that “there needs to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions. This and other comments, where Trump takes credit for the Supreme Court decision, are now being used by the Democrats for all they are worth in the election campaign.
– Broke the muzzle
Muted
Recently, it also seems that Trump is trying to tone down his statements a little more because the abortion issue has proven to mobilize a great many democratic voters in elections and referenda in the last two years.
The national anti-abortion organization SBA Pro-Life America says in a statement that they are “disappointed by President Trump’s position where he delegates a human right to the states”, AP writes.
They claim it is the Democrats who want abortion without borders across the country. At the same time, they are in favor of a federal ban on abortion after week 15, but also support stricter abortion laws in some states.
President Joe Biden is also trying to make abortion a major campaign issue.
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– Little doubt
– Donald Trump’s latest statements leave little doubt: If elected, he will sign a national abortion ban, allow women who have abortions to be prosecuted, allow the government to invade women’s privacy and monitor pregnancies, and jeopardize IVF and ultrasounds, says Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, to the AP about Trump’s statements to Time.
Also president of the organization Reproductive Freedom for All, Mini Timmaraju, strongly doubts that Trump’s strategy of leaving the issue to the states.
– I have zero doubt that Trump will choose anti-abortion extremists and their horrific agenda over American families every chance he gets, she tells AP.
She receives support from the non-profit organization Planned Parenthood.
– In Trump’s America, people will be punished for having abortions, the government will monitor women’s pregnancies, and he will weaponize and abuse 19th-century laws to criminalize doctors and ban abortion nationally, predicts the executive director of the organization, Jenny Lawson, in a statement.
