Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speakerFacing the press alongside the House speaker, fellow Republican Mike Johnson, Donald Trump bragged: “We broke Roe v Wade.”The former president made the stark admission about his dominant role in attacks on abortion rights at the end of a week in which the rightwing Arizona state supreme court ruled that an 1864 law imposing a near-total ban could go back into effect. Continue...
Donald Trump says an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and the former president called on Arizona lawmakers to change it.
He told reporters at a press event with Speaker Mike Johnson in Mar-a-Lago Friday evening that there is no need for a national abortion ban anymore. That's because he already 'broke' Roe v. Wade, which was overturned in 2022. But Trump refused to clarify if he identifies as pro-choice or pro-life. The former president also compared himself to Ronald Reagan, who was once a Democrat
The former president has boasted about ending the 1973 Supreme Court ruling — guaranteeing federal abortion protections for all women — many times.
After Republican-appointed justices on the Arizona Supreme Court cleared the way for a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban to take effect, more than a few GOP officials ran for cover. This wasn’t surprising: The Arizona law will have some fans on the far-right, but with the American mainstream, it’ll be politically radioactive. It was against this backdrop that Sen. Joni Ernst appeared on Fox Business and was asked for her reaction. The Iowa Republican replied: Right off the bat, it’s worth...
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On Wednesday, CNN ran an article headlined “Trump says he wouldn’t sign federal abortion ban.” The headline at The Hill was nearly identical. USA Today’s headline included Trump complaining about the Arizona decision. The New York Times followed that same path. No matter what broadcast media, newspaper, or online outlet anyone visited on Wednesday, everyone got the same message: Donald Trump promised to not sign a federal ban on abortion and pushed back against the ban in Arizona. That’s a...
A growing number of progressive candidates are choosing to tell their own abortion stories.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion. But a year of watching women and doctors agonize under Tennessee’s strict abortion ban kicked up a fire in the longtime Democrat. She watched in dismay as her Republican colleagues in the General Assembly dismissed concerns that the law […]
(The Center Square) – Vice President Kamala Harris contacted Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday following the state Supreme Court ruling reinstituting an 1864 abortion ban law. According to Hobbs, the pair discussed their disagreement with the 4-2 decision that could go into effect if the legislature does not repeal the law in time, which only includes an exception for an abortion if a mother's life is at risk. The current abortion law is 15-weeks, and then only a mother's life...
As the party struggles to talk about abortion, response marks fastest and
‘Boy Meets World’ actors Will Friedle and Rider Strong are reflecting on their past support for guest star Brian Peck, who was later convicted of child sex abuse. ‘We’re sitting in that courtroom on the wrong side of everything,” Friedle recalled.