During Thursday’s first presidential debate, Donald Trump gleefully accepted responsibility for overturning Roe v. Wade, rewriting history as if he had accommodated the majority of Americans by doing so.
“What I did is I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court, and they happened to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade and moving it back to the states,” Trump said after claiming he would not block the Supreme Court decision that salvaged access to the abortion pill. “This is something that everybody wanted.”
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“Now, 10 years ago or so, they started talking about how many weeks and how many of these—getting into other things—but every legal scholar throughout the world, the most respected, wanted it to be brought back to the states,” Mr. Trump added. “I did that.”
Then he went through a list of states that have chosen to prohibit abortions: Ohio, Kansas, Texas, and Florida, which Trump described as “a little more liberal than you would have thought.”
“Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions,” Trump said. “I’m a person that believes. And frankly I think it’s important to believe in the exceptions, some people, you have to follow your heart, some people don’t believe in that, but I believe in exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. I think it’s very important. Some people don’t. Follow your heart. But you gotta get elected.”
A Pew Research Center survey from March revealed that 63 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal in all or some situations.
