Donald Trump Takes Heat From Conservatives Over Latest Abortion Comments
As the article states--it does seem that Trump recognizes that extreme positions on abortion is not popular.
Donald Trump Takes Heat From Conservatives Over Latest Abortion Comments
“It’s never a ‘terrible thing’ to protect innocent life," Iowa's GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds said after Trump criticized six-week abortion bans.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-abortion-iowa-gov-kim-reynolds_n_650a2662e4b0abb9f30c61bb
Sep 19, 2023, 08:28 PM EDT
Donald Trump is facing blowback from conservatives and anti-abortion activists for calling a ban on abortion after six weeks “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake” in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” over the weekend.
It’s the latest contortion for the former president who made such laws possible with his appointment of three conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who joined in overturning Roe v. Wade last year. Yet Trump also seems to recognize the broad unpopularity of extreme abortion restrictions ahead of another likely campaign against President Joe Biden in 2024.
Kim Reynolds, the popular Republican governor of Iowa, an early presidential nominating state that Trump is seeking to win, on Tuesday spoke out against Trump’s comments without referring to him by name.
“It’s never a ‘terrible thing’ to protect innocent life. I’m proud of the fetal heartbeat bill the Iowa legislature passed and I signed in 2018 and again earlier this year,” Reynolds wrote on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, also pushed back against Trump’s comments, saying he was “wrong” to attack Florida governor and rival presidential candidate Ron DeSantis for signing a similar measure into law in his state.....................
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