{"id":105017,"date":"2024-04-04T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-keeps-teasing-an-announcement-on-abortion-soon-but-dodges-on-specifics\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:08:21","slug":"trump-keeps-teasing-an-announcement-on-abortion-soon-but-dodges-on-specifics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-keeps-teasing-an-announcement-on-abortion-soon-but-dodges-on-specifics\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps teasing an announcement on abortion ‘soon’ but dodges on specifics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2023. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(WASHINGTON) — On the heels of the Florida Supreme Court upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban and paving the way for a six-week ban with few exceptions, former President Donald Trump on Tuesday teased that he will announce his own abortion plan “next week” — but offered no further details on an issue that could shape the 2024 race.<\/p>\n

Trump’s brief comment, answering a shouted question about the Florida abortion ban at the end of a press conference-style campaign event in Michigan, comes after months of the former president dodging questions about his stance on the specifics of abortion restrictions.<\/p>\n

At the same time, he has championed his role in the end of Roe v. Wade, which he has celebrated for preventing abortions while saying it boosted states’ rights.<\/p>\n

Tuesday was not the first time Trump teased an update on abortion, telling Fox News’ Howard Kurtz just last month that he’ll be making a decision “pretty soon” and that “there will be a certain spot” and he wants to “make both sides happy.”<\/p>\n

Walking out of a polling location in Florida last month after voting for himself in the state’s Republican primary, Trump again said he’ll be “talking about that soon,” while not saying when.<\/p>\n

The Trump campaign has also declined to say if he supports or opposes a measure on the November ballot that would broaden abortion access in Florida and undo the current restrictions.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail so far this election cycle, Trump has mainly avoided stating whether he supports or opposes a specific number of weeks when it comes to abortion bans, insisting it’s “probably better” that the discussion be left up to the states as long as they uphold three exceptions: rape, incest and the life of the mother.<\/p>\n

In private conversations with allies and advisers, however, Trump has expressed support for a 16-week national abortion ban with those same exceptions, ABC News reported in February, citing two sources. At the time, his campaign did not deny the reporting but issued a statement that said he would work to find middle ground on abortion, which has become a familiar refrain for him on the trail.<\/p>\n

In an interview with NBC News in September, Trump made a point of criticizing Florida’s six-week ban, which is now on the verge of taking effect, as a “terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”<\/p>\n

“I think the Republicans speak very inarticulately about this subject,” he said then, contending then that there would be some kind of politically viable compromise.<\/p>\n

“Other than certain parts of the country, you can’t — you’re not going to win on this issue. But you will win on this issue when you come up with the right number of weeks,” he said.<\/p>\n

He’s also been repeating a broad rhetoric about his support for abortion opponents, touting his role in the end of Roe through his three Supreme Court justice appointments as the evidence that he’s a champion of the anti-abortion cause.<\/p>\n

“We did something that was a miracle,” he said during a town hall in January, suggesting that the lack of abortions since the court ruling two years ago had “saved” millions of lives.<\/p>\n

“Nobody has done more in that regard than me,” he said.<\/p>\n

On the Florida Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday, Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes sought to stress his support for states’ rights to their own abortion laws — while rival Joe Biden’s campaign tried to tie Trump to the “extreme” Florida restrictions to argue that the issue would boost him at the ballot box.<\/p>\n

“Protecting abortion rights is mobilizing a diverse and growing segment of voters to help buoy Democrats,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote in a strategy memo, in part.<\/p>\n

Trump’s adviser pushed back, slamming what he called Democrats’ far more permissive abortion policies.<\/p>\n

“President Trump supports preserving life but has also made clear that he supports states’ rights because he supports the voters’ right to make decisions for themselves,” Hughes said in a statement to ABC News.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, however, Trump has alluded to the possibility of some level of restriction at the federal level, repeatedly mentioning discussions about a 15-week or 16-week ban during media interviews, while still claiming he’s not committed to a specific number and praising himself for sending the rights back to the states.<\/p>\n

“I’m hearing about 15 weeks and I haven’t decided yet,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in February. “Also, we got it back to the states where it belongs,”<\/p>\n

“Now it’s in the states — a lot of states who are taking a vote of their citizens and votes are coming out both ways — but largely they’re coming in with a certain number of weeks, and the number 15 is mentioned,” Trump continued.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t agreed to any number. I’m going to see — we want to take an issue that was very polarizing and get it settled and solved so everybody can be happy,” he told Hannity.<\/p>\n

Trump similarly floated 15 weeks during an interview with WABC-TV last month, claiming “even hard-liners” seem to be agreeing that “15 weeks seems to be a number that people are agreeing.”<\/p>\n

Then he promised: “I’ll make that announcement at the appropriate time.”<\/p>\n

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