Ohio Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, said Saturday that Trump would veto a federal abortion ban if Congress passed a bill.
Asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” about Republican lawmakers like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham who would like to see Trump advocate for and pass an abortion ban, Vance told moderator Kristen Welker that Trump has “explicitly” said he would veto a ban.
“I mean, if you don’t support it, as president of the United States, you basically have to veto it,” Vance argued.
The Trump campaign’s latest stance comes as the former president has shifted his position on abortion policy over the years.
In April, Trump was asked on a tarmac in Atlanta whether he would sign a national abortion ban if it passed Congress and simply replied, “No.”
But the former president did not clarify at the time what he considered a “prohibition.”
In 2018, as president, Trump asked the Senate to pass a 20-week limit on abortions that had already been approved by the House of Representatives.
Last year, she welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion.
“After 50 years of failure, with no one even coming close, I was able to overturn Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone,” Trump said in a social media post in May 2023.
And as recently as March, Trump flirted with the idea of a 15-week federal abortion ban, telling a local radio host that “the number of weeks now… people are okay with 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and something will come out that’s very reasonable.”
“But people actually agree, even the hardliners, it seems to be 15 weeks, it seems to be a number that people agree on,” Trump added in that interview.
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