Trump Made the Right Call – The American Spectator

“We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, reacted to Donald Trump revealing his post-Dobbs, 2024 position on abortion.

Trump, rather than pro-life activists, gets it right here. After foolishly floating a national ban on abortions that take place after the 15th week of pregnancy, Trump embraced the logic of the Dobbs decision: leave the question to the states where the Constitution dictates it belongs. (RELATED: Trump Weighs In on the Abortion Debate)

“My view is, now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,” Trump reasoned on Truth Social.

Dobbs, of course, was the great compromise on abortion. It did not do the opposite of Roe, meaning that it did not impose a uniform ban on abortions the way Roe uniformly banned states from banning it.

Instead, it, in its middle (and constitutional) course, told Alabama to make laws for Alabama and not Massachusetts and Massachusetts to make laws for Massachusetts and not Alabama.

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