Trump’s pledge to be ‘great for women and their reproductive rights’ angers advocates

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Trump’s pledge to be ‘great for women and their reproductive rights’ angers advocates

Donald Trump attempted to strike a new tone on the issue of ********* this week, saying he would be “great for women and their reproductive rights” — to the frustration of anti-********* advocates.

The former president invoked the phrase in a

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on Friday, reflecting his campaign’s frenzied attempt to

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in the race against Vice President Kamala Harris and present more moderately on the issue of *********, which has plagued Republicans electorally since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

Democrats frequently use the phrase “reproductive rights” as a stand-in for ********* but also to refer more broadly to a range of medical practices related to child-bearing, such as birth control and in vitro fertilization. Support for reproductive rights, when invoked by Democrats, almost always means support for access to *********. In contrast, Republicans rarely talk about ********* in that way, and anti-********* advocates quickly took notice of Trump’s tonal shift.

Lila Rose, founder of the anti-********* group Live Action, speaking on her podcast on Friday, criticized Trump for trying to “ingratiate himself with those that are pro-*********” with his use of the phrase.

“Not only is it not principled, it’s not going to help the Trump campaign to be trying to sound like a Democrat right now,” Rose said.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action, said on X that the Truth Social post had “understandably upset many within the pro-life movement.” National Review editor Philip Klein

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, in the battle over *********, it “increasingly looks like Trump is joining the other side.”

Trump’s campaign suggested the Truth Social post was aligned with his previous positions on ********* and other reproductive issues.

“As President Trump has consistently stated, he supports the rights of individuals in their respective states to determine their laws on *********. President Trump also strongly supports ensuring women have access to the care they need to create healthy families, including widespread access to IVF, birth control, and contraception, and he always will,” said Karoline Leavitt, the campaign’s national press secretary.

The Truth Social post came after a week where Democrats repeatedly went after Trump on the issue of ********* at the Democratic National Convention, which

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who struggled to receive adequate health care in the post-Roe era. Harris, in her Thursday address, sought to tie restrictive state ********* laws directly to the former president, saying victims of ******* ******** were being denied abortions “because of Donald Trump.”

But Trump has also repeatedly frustrated anti-********* advocates over the course of his campaign by declining to go further in limiting ********* access. In an interview earlier this week,

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to ban mail delivery of ********* drugs, something anti-********* advocates had pushed for. And earlier this year, he opted not

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or restriction as some Republicans have advocated for, instead saying the question of legal ********* should continue to be decided at the state level.

Anti-********* advocacy groups have backed Trump in spite of those disagreements, and the former president continues to describe the appointing of Supreme Court justices who would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade as one of the key achievements of his first administration.

But Trump, who attended the March for Life as president, has also appeared mindful that the politics of ********* have shifted since Roe was overturned, particularly as the ********* rights side has won referendums even in red states in the past two years. He

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for the GOP’s 2022 midterm losses and his campaign pushed for language calling for a national ********* ban to be

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, replacing it with language mirroring his own stated position that the issue should be left up to the states.

Trump has

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so far how he would vote in an upcoming referendum in his home state of Florida that would restore the right to ********* until viability, replacing the state’s current 6-week ban.

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