CHICAGO (AP) — A review by the Associated Press shows that several candidates for President Donald Trump’s federal court have revealed their anti-abortion views and are linked to anti-abortion groups or defensive abortion restrictions.
Some have helped to protect state abortion restrictions in court, while some have been involved in lawsuits that have had national impacts, including access to medication abortion.
Trump has said that abortion-related issues should be left to the state, but the candidate will be in a position to roll back abortion rights after Trump leaves the White House, with a lifelong appointment.
Trump is inconsistent with abortion
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A few years before his recent presidential campaign, Trump expressed support for a federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying he might support a national ban. Approximately 15 weeks. He later settled on messaging that decisions regarding abortion access should be left to the state.
Anti-abortion protesters will meet outside the Supreme Court on June 26, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)
Through his campaign, Trump, Roev. He alternated between appointing a Supreme Court judge who overturned Wade and helped him to strike a more neutral tone. It was an effort to navigate political disparities between the foundations of anti-abortion advocates and the wider public. Most support access to abortion.
Many candidates have anti-abortion backgrounds
One Trump candidate called abortion a “bad practice” and another called himself an anti-abortion “fanart.” The Tennessee candidate said abortion deserves special scrutiny, as “it is the only medical procedure that will end your life.”
One from Missouri has spread misinformation about medication abortion, including “starving death in the uterus” about abortion.
Legal experts and abortion rights advocates have warned of systematically reshaping federal courts in ways that could pose a lasting threat to abortion access nationwide.
Bernadette Myler, a professor of constitutional law at Stanford University, said the appointment of justice is “a way to shape abortion questions into the federal government without passing through Congress or making a big, explicit statement.”
“This is a bit of a way to hide what’s going on in the abortion field compared to laws and executive orders that can be more prominent, dramatic, and more repulsive,” she said.
The candidate represents Trump’s “promise” to Americans, the White House says
“All candidates for the president represent his promise to the American people and are consistent with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields said.
“The Democratic Party’s extreme position on abortion was rejected in November in favor of President Trump’s common sense approach, which allows the nation to decide, support the sanctity of human life and prevent taxpayers from funding for abortion,” Fields said in a statement to the Associated Press.
Trump was primarily focused on the economy and immigration during his 2024 campaign. The survey showed It was the most important topic for voters.
Abortion prevention groups, abortion rights advocates respond
Anti-abortion advocates say it is too early to determine whether a candidate supports the goal, but there is hope based on the names given so far.
“We look forward to the reduction of candidates for another four years from that mold,” said Katie Glenn Daniel, legal director at SBA Pro-Life America, a national anti-abortion organization.
Abortion rights activists and women’s marching leaders will protest June 24, 2024 in Washington as part of a nationwide strike action outside the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)
Abortion rights advocates say Trump is embedding abortion enemies into one of the judiciary at once
“This is just feeding this big strategy that Trump says to distance himself from abortion and appointing anti-abortion extremists at all levels of the government,” said Minitim Maraj, president of Reproductive Freedom, a national abortion rights organization.
