The former president’s attacks on Florida’s six-week abortion limit could have deadly consequences.
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Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee’s 2023 Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2023.
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In an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday, Donald Trump attacked Governor Ron DeSantis’s approval of a law in Florida that protects the lives of babies with detectable heartbeats as “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
With those words, Trump has staked out a position in favor of state laws that allow the purely elective destruction of unborn children until some point far later than six weeks into pregnancy, when only a small percentage of all abortions are performed.
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John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.
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In an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday, Donald Trump attacked Governor Ron DeSantis’s approval of a law in Florida that protects the lives of babies with detectable heartbeats as “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
With those words, Trump has staked out a position in favor of state laws that allow the purely elective destruction of unborn children until some point far later than six weeks into pregnancy, when only a small percentage of all abortions are performed.
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About the Author
John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.
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