Tue Jun 27, 2023 – 12:14 pm EDTTue Jun 27, 2023 – 1:47 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump now believes the federal government has a role to play in regulating abortion, a departure from previous remarks expressing a desire that the issue be resolved at the state level.
“There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life,” Trump unexpectedly announced Saturday night at the Evangelical Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual conference in Washington DC. “We will bring everybody together to protect our precious unborn babies in a very, very big way.”
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Trump’s remarks come after several months of refusing to commit to a national abortion policy. “We’re going to look at it,” he told a reporter in May who pressed him on whether he supports a 15-week ban. It’s a “very complex issue,” he explained to liberal CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins during a town hall a week later.
Trump’s campaign previously said that abortion should be a “state’s only” issue, infuriating pro-lifers at the time. “Trump has DISQUALIFIED himself from the nomination of our nation’s pro-life political party,” Lila Rose of
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