Mon Sep 25, 2023 – 2:48 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Former President and leading Republican primary candidate Donald Trump has doubled down on his disavowal of heartbeat laws in the face of pro-life criticism, claiming in the process that the pro-life movement had been ineffectual for 52 years “until I came along.”
During an interview this month on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump slammed signing heartbeat laws, which ban abortion around six weeks of pregnancy, as a “terrible thing and a terrible mistake,” as part of a broader discussion in which he insisted on rape and incest exceptions and refused to commit to at least signing a 15-week ban, but instead laid out a vision for mediating a grand compromise on abortion that would find a cutoff point agreeable to both Republicans and Democrats, after which the issue could be put to rest nationally.
The remarks provoked a backlash from pro-life leaders and groups who said that they undermined work to advance life in the states and raised doubts as to whether Trump would be a reliable ally in a second term. They also received condemnation from Trump’s chief rival for the GOP nomination, Florida Gov.
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