Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe Arizona supreme court decision upended Donald Trump’s gambit on abortion, a day after the former president sought to neutralize the political issue by declining to support a national abortion ban.Trump had hoped that his announcement on Monday would keep abortion rights mostly out of the conversation ahead of the November elections, but Tuesday’s ruling showed just how difficult it will be to do that, the Washington Post’s Dan Balz writes.
All abortion politics are national, not local. Abortion developments – new laws, new restrictions, new stories of women caught up in heart-wrenching and sometimes life-threatening decisions – are no longer confined to the geography where they take place. They are instantly part of the larger debate.
Trump is correct about the dangers to Republicans of continuing the debate about abortion rights, Balz says, but the former president has abandoned those whose interests he once vowed to serve.
There is no safe harbor for Trump and the Republicans at this point. The abortion issue is no less complex and no less difficult for many Americans than it was while Roe was in force. But politically the winds have shifted, and done so dramatically.
ShareUpdated at 10.47 EDTFor more than a year, Donald Trump declined to say when in a pregnancy he would try to draw the line, even as Republican-led states have ushered in a wave of new restrictions and anti-abortion groups pressured him and other Republican presidential candidates to endorse a federal ban on the procedure.In his statement on Monday, Trump did not say whether he would sign into law a national abortion ban if he were president and Congress passed a federal limit. Neither did he say how he, as a resident of Florida, would vote on a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights into that state’s constitution.Democrats, who have made abortion a central issue of the election, said Trump supported laws in the more than two dozens states that have imposed outright bans or restrictions on the procedure since Roe v Wade was overturned.Abortion-rights supporters and opponents protest in Washington DC on 20 January 2024. Photograph: Anna Rose Layden/Getty ImagesOn the campaign trail, Trump has been ambivalent on abortion. He routinely takes credit for appointing the supreme court justices who set the stage for the elimination of Roe v Wade, which he has called a “moral and unconstitutional atrocity”. He has also called himself the “most pro-life president in American history”.But he has repeatedly dismissed as too extreme fellow Republicans who oppose exceptions to abortion restrictions in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the pregnant person is at risk. And he has said being too hardline on the issue cost Republicans at the polls in the 2022 midterms and could do so again …
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