I don't believe Trump was ever pro-life. Keep in mind, he is on the record saying he is fine with partial birth abortion.
He has often talked about how his opinions changed as his own kids came and then the grandkids and he found that he was completely pro life. At the same time he, like I do, understands that there are situations--these are very rare but they do exist--in which abortion is the ethical choice and he believes that should be both legal and safe and accessible.
For that reason he has personally opposed those states with the most draconian laws as well as the states in which pretty much anything goes. But he does believe, as I do, that it should be left with the people and the federal government has no constitutional authority of any kind to dictate that abortions must be allowed with no restrictions or banned entirely or something in the middle. Those choices are constitutionally assigned to the people in the states to decide.
He also hopes most states come to the same conclusion he has and he suspects in time most or all will find a happy medium that is the right choice.
The Democrats have pretty much universally expressed an opinion that nobody should be allowed to restrict abortions in any way and the federal government should require that there be no restrictions.
Melania wrote in her book:
“Indeed, most people agree that abortion should be permissible in cases where a woman’s life is at risk due to the pregnancy, as well as those situations where the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest,” she added. “Timing matters.”
The memoir, though, does not outline if the reverse is true: If there are "legitimate" reasons for a woman to get an abortion, are there times it is illegitimate?
In her new memoir, Melania Trump also writes that a woman has a "fundamental right of individual liberty" that "grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes."
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