Trump says he would veto a federal abortion ban

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Trump says he would veto a federal ********* ban

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night for the first time said he would veto a federal ********* ban, a position he has shied away from declaring and is likely to upset his anti-********* supporters. 

In the middle of the vice presidential debate, Trump

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to social media that “everyone knows that I would not support a federal ********* ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it, because it is up to the states to decide based on the will of their voters (the will of the people!)” 

Trump had not previously said if he would veto a national ban. His running mate, Sen. JD Vance, said in August that the former president would veto a national ********* ban, but Trump said during the Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, “I didn’t discuss it with JD.” 

During that same debate, Harris said, “Understand, if Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national ********* ban.”

Trump responded that was a “lie” and he’s “not signing a ban, and there’s no reason to sign a ban because we’ve gotten what everybody wanted.” 

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Former President and *********** Presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the Discovery Center on October 1, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

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Democrats have tried to tie Trump to the ********* restrictions enacted in 22 states since Roe v. Wade was reversed, as well as to the Heritage Foundation’s

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. Project 2025 says “the next ************* President should work with Congress to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support while deploying existing federal powers to protect innocent life and vigorously complying with statutory bans on the federal funding of *********.”

Trump had boasted about putting three ************* justices on the Supreme Court who were crucial to overturning Roe v. Wade. In August, Trump said he will vote against a proposed constitutional amendment in Florida which would undo the state’s six-week ********* ban. However, just days prior to that, he had said in an interview that six weeks “is too short.”

“There has to be more time,” he said at the time. “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.” 

 He has insisted that giving states’ the authority to make ********* law is what people wanted. 

In Tuesday’s debate, Vance said he never supported a national ban, although he said when running for Senate in 2022 that he “certainly would like ********* to be ******** nationally.” Vance also disputed the moderators’ calling a federal 15-week restriction a “ban,” saying he supported a “minimum national standard.” 

Trump’s post Tuesday also falsely claimed that Democrats support late-term abortions and the “**********” of ******* after they are born, a false claim he has repeated on the campaign trail. 

Melissa Quinn

contributed to this report.

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Caroline Linton

Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily ******, Newsweek and amNewYork.

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