By The Opinion
24 Aug 2024, 20:38 PM EDT
The senator JD Vancerunning mate of the former president Donald Trump, said Saturday that Trump would veto a federal abortion ban if Congress passed a bill.
Asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” about Republican lawmakers like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham who would like to see Trump advocate for and pass an abortion ban, Vance told moderator Kristen Welker that Trump has “explicitly” said he would veto a ban.
“I mean, if you don’t support it, as president of the United States, you basically have to veto it,” Vance argued.
Vance’s response to Trump’s abortion rights policy, if re-elected, shows how the former president has changed his stance on abortion over the years.
In April, Trump was asked on a tarmac in Atlanta whether he would sign a national abortion ban if it passed Congress, He simply replied “no.”
But the former president did not clarify at the time what he considered a “prohibition.”
In 2018, when I was president, Trump asked the Senate to approve a 20-week federal limit on abortions which had already been approved by the House of Representatives.
Last year, Trump praised the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion.
“After 50 years of failure, with no one coming even close, I was able to overturn Roe vs Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone,” Trump said in a social media post in May 2023.
And as recently as March, Trump flirted with the idea of a federal ban on abortion at 15 weekstelling a local radio host that “the number of weeks now… people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and it will come out to something that is very reasonable.”
“But people actually agree, even the hardliners, it seems to be 15 weeks, it seems to be a number that people agree on,” Trump added in that interview.
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