(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump laid out his stance on abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF) Monday after recent major court cases reshaped the landscape on both those issues.
In a video posted online, Trump expressed support for IVF and said abortion laws should be handled by the states.
“Under my leadership, the Republican party will always support the creation of strong, thriving and healthy American families,” Trump said. “We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder. That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America.”
Trump’s support comes after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that embryos should be treated as children, creating major questions about the future and legality of IVF.
IVF usually works by creating embryos outside the womb and then implanting them within the womb. Often, because of the failure rate of those implantations, those seeking IVF treatment will create many more embryos than they expect to have as children. Later, if a couple decides to stop trying to have children, the remaining embryos are either donated or destroyed, but destroying them could have been illegal under the new ruling.
In response, Alabama lawmakers passed a law in March providing criminal and civil immunity to IVF clinics that destroy or damage embryos.
“Today, I’m pleased that the Alabama legislature has acted very quickly and passed legislation that preserves the availability of IVF in Alabama,” Trump said. “The Republican party should always be on the side of the miracle of life and the side of mothers, fathers, their beautiful babies, and that’s what we are.”
Trump went on to say he has continued to receive questions about his stance on abortion since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, something he took credit for in the video. He said whatever states decide will be the final say.
“It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radicals on this one because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month,” Trump said. “The concept of having an abortion in the later months and even execution after birth, and that’s exactly what it is, the baby is born, and the baby is executed after birth, is unacceptable and almost everyone agrees with that.”
The stance is a major strategic decision for Trump, as President Joe Biden and Democrats have repeatedly used the abortion issue to rally their base after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide abortion legalization allowed Roe v. Wade and sent the issue back to the states.
“Like Ronald Reagan, I am strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother,” he added.
Abortion has been a significant electoral issue for decades, but the overturning of Roe v. Wade significantly increased its importance. Under the Supreme Court’s ruling, states can decide their own abortion laws.
During his State of the Union Address, Biden made a point of this and claimed he would rally women to his side in November on this issue.
“Clearly those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women,” Biden said in his State of the Union remarks. “But they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2023, and we will win again in 2024. If you – if you, the American people, send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
Abortion IS NOT up to the President to decide! The supreme court has ruled it is up to each State to decide their own abortion laws.
So why do the Democrats keep trying to make it a presidential election issue?? Because the Democrat party cult and their supporters operate strictly on emotion, with very little rational thought and who simply do not understand reality.
To this treasonous self-righteous, woke Democrat Party and their idiot supporters, the U.S. Constitution, Laws, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, laws, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
One woman’s reproductive freedom is another man’s act of infanticide. Clearly, those Biden type men who act like women, when bragging about enshrining Roe v. Wade as the recaptured national norm, have no clue about the power of real MEN. Try being one Joe for a change, you may come to like IT, and learn to respect YOURSELF? Real men protect their women and prepare a safe way for the unborn to enter the world of the living, not throw the unborn innocent babies under the campaign bus, along with the election swamp sourced bath water, along with their media misguided fear mongered mommies.
As i keep saying to liberal women… “IF MEN SHOULDN’T have an impact or a voice on abortion, then THOSE WHO HATE GUNS shouldn’t have an impact or voice on GUN CONTROL legislation!”
Abortion advocates have always been in the minority, the majority actually having the capacity to listen to their consciences to choose life over death. A vocal minority none the less who for decades was able to depopulate the human strength of the nation to the point that millions of illegals had to be imported to replace them, or the bankrupting Ponzi scheme programs of the liberals like social security, that depend on an ever-increasing future population the cost could be dumped on, would not allow them to control THE PEOPLE. I’m old enough to remember when abortions were banned and the country prospered, and life was celebrated, not just treated as a political ploy to get frightened women to swing elections in favor of one party. Arizona who now considers a total ban, will survive this one too as their population of LEGAL Americans with American born concepts of freedom and success again begin to enlarge and enrich the country not just in human wealth but human love.
And though a minority, they wield clout beyond their #’s, as too MANY HUSBANDS/Boyfriends, get ‘whipped’ by their abortion loving wives/girl friends, into “AGREEING” with their stance…