“Donald Trump is playing down the prospect of nationwide abortion restrictions, falsely saying Republicans have long sought to leave abortion law to the states,” NBC News reports.
“Trump’s latest claim is belied by a long history of his party’s fighting to restrict abortion nationally.”
“In fact, it would come as news to then-President Trump, who in 2018 championed legislation in Congress to criminalize abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy. At the time, he called a 20-week ban ‘important legislation that would protect our most vulnerable’ and said it was ‘disappointing’ that the bill failed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.”
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