‘This will work out for everybody’: Trump praises SCOTUS decision on Roe V. Wade and says it gives states back their rights
- Former President Donald Trump said that the June 24 decision follows the constitution
- Trump said in a message to his pro-choice supporters: ‘This is something that will work out for everybody’
- During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised supporters that he would only appoint ‘pro-life judges’
- Prior to June 24, Trump has been largely silent on Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion that abortion was not protected by the constitution
Former President Donald Trump praised the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion on Friday.
Trump told Fox News: ‘This is following the Constitution, and giving rights back when they should have been given long ago.’
When asked about how his reaction would go down among his supporters who are pro-choice, Trump said: ‘I think, in the end, this is something that will work out for everybody. This brings everything back to the states where it has always belonged.’
Famously, despite not winning the popular vote, serving one term as president and being impeached twice, Trump was afforded three picks on the Supreme Court.
Trump was asked about his influence on the June 2022 decision, he replied: ‘God made the decision.’ The former ‘Apprentice’ host appointed three conservatives, Neal Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, all of whom voted to overturn.
Since 1973, the landmark Roe v Wade decision permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
The decision to overturn was based on conservative Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion that was ratified by the court’s five other conservatives.
Following the June 24 vote, the issue of abortion will be decided on by the states.
The former president said in an interview with Fox News that ‘God’ made the decision to overturn Roe v Wade
Anti-abortion protesters celebrate following Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, in the nation’s capital
Famously, despite not winning the popular vote, serving one term as president and being impeached twice, Trump was afforded three picks on the Supreme Court
Considering the former president’s track record of proudly discussing his accomplishments, Trump was largely silent following the leaking of Alito’s opinion draft.
A search of Trump’s Truth Social page reveals no mentions of Alito’s opinion, abortion or Roe v Wade over the last two months. At the time of writing, Trump has not posted on Truth Social about the June 24 vote.
His most recent message dealt with the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a New York law about guns decreeing that decisions on the Second Amendment could not be made by the states.
According to a May 2022 Rolling Stone feature, Trump’s silence on Roe v Wade is related to his worries that coming out to strongly against abortion could hurt him with suburban women voters in 2024.
Also in May, the former president was asked by the New York Times’ Michael Bender about his silence on Alito’s opinion. Trump said: ‘I never like to take credit for anything.’
While on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump promised his supporters that he was committed to appointing ‘pro-life’ justices who would work to overturn Roe v Wade.
In his final presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump said: ‘The Supreme Court – it’s what it’s all about. It’s just so, so imperative that we have the right justices. The justices that I am going to appoint will be pro-life, they will have a conservative bent.’
Infamously, Trump told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in April 2016 that there should be some kind of ‘punishment’ for women who had abortions.
The former president recanted shortly afterward telling CBS’s John Dickerson: ‘The laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way.’
While on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump promised supporters that he would only appoint pro-life judges
In May, the former president was asked by the New York Times’ Michael Bender about his silence on Alito’s opinion. Trump said: ‘I never like to take credit for anything’
In an appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News show, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, 44, said that the liberal outrage over Alito’s leaked opinion was disingenuous.
Trump Jr. said that the issue was merely being used an issue to unite Democrats.
The president’s daughter, Ivanka, 40, similar to her father remained silent on Alito’s opinion. In October 2020, she was widely quoted as saying that she was ‘unapologetically pro-life.’
Republican voters are overwhelmingly pro-life when polled. Although a National Institute for Reproductive Health October 2020 poll, found that over 60% of Republican voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania said that despite their personal pro-life views, they felt the final decision should be left to the mother, according to a New Yorker feature.
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