“My view is now that we have abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state,” (Trump on Truth Social)
He will take hits from both sides over this. But I tend to agree with him. Since Roe Repubs have argued that abortion should be decided at the state level. It took 50 years to get that done.
In our lifetime there will never be a national consensus. I think it is important to look at what has been accomplished. Now it is not a matter of if a human life is being killed . The argument over when abortions should be legal is a question of when a human can be killed. Even states with pro-life policies have it legal . Here in SC as an example the law now says it is legal at 6 weeks or less.
The question of when a fetus is a person with protected rights will not be settled in our lifetime. And it is an almost certainty that nationally there will never be anything close to a consensus . So IF a national law was passed ;it will be just like Roe where a good percentage of the nation will feel the law is unjust.
I would like to see no abortions except for in rare cases of health or viability .But that is not going to happen
You will read how Trump is betraying his base . But Trump taking a moderate position is a Dem nightmare. They can paint him ;right or wrong, as extreme on some other issues. But they were counting on him being the extremist on abortion who ended Roe. Well yeah . He is most responsible for ending Roe by tipping the balance at SCOTUS . But his position on abortion is hardly extremist and in my view a stroke of genius .