Former United States president Donald Trump, on Monday (Apr 8) said that he believes that the decision regarding abortion rights should be left up to the US states, but did not mention his position on a national abortion ban.

<h2>What did Trump say?&nbsp;</h2>

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee weighed in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics months ahead of the upcoming elections in November, in a video post on his social media platform, Truth Social.&nbsp;

Trump has previously indicated support for a 15-week federal ban with exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother. He also reiterated his support for the availability of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

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“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. In this case, the law of the state,” said the former president.&nbsp;

He also said that many states will be “different” and have “different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” Trump added.&nbsp;

However, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee did not mention anything about a national ban to prohibit abortions beyond a certain number of weeks into a pregnancy.&nbsp;

In his video, on Monday, the former president also took credit for overturning the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade which effectively ended the&nbsp;constitutional right to an abortion.&nbsp;

The reversal of the five-decade-old decision has led more than a dozen states to ban or severely restrict women’s ability to access safe and legal abortion.&nbsp;

“This 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the federal hands and brought it into the hearts, minds and vote of the people in each state. It was really something. Now it’s up to the states to do the right thing,” said Trump.&nbsp;

Notably, the court’s decision to overturn the landmark decision triggered a backlash among voters and <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/wasnt-my-fault-donald-trump-on-the-midterm-loss-blames-abortion-548875https://www.wionews.com/world/wasnt-my-fault-donald-trump-on-the-midterm-loss-blames-abortion-548875">reportedly affected</a> Republican gains in several states during the 2022 midterm elections.&nbsp;

<h2>About Biden’s stance</h2>

Meanwhile, incumbent President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden has made his predecessor and Republicans’ opposition to abortion rights a key tenet of his re-election campaign.&nbsp;

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“Donald Trump is endorsing every single abortion ban in the states, including abortion bans with no exceptions. And he’s bragging about his role in creating this hellscape,” said Ammar Moussa, director of rapid response for the Biden campaign, on X, on Monday.&nbsp;

Earlier this month, Biden denounced a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court which allows a six-week ban on abortion to take effect. On April 1, the state’s top court upheld a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.&nbsp;

The incumbent president slammed Republicans for limiting reproductive rights in Florida and other US states saying that it is “putting the health and lives of millions of women at risk.”&nbsp;

(With inputs from agencies) 
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Former United States president Donald Trump, on Monday (Apr 8) said that he believes that the decision regarding abortion rights should be left up to the US states, but did not mention his position on a national abortion ban.

Former United States president Donald Trump, on Monday (Apr 8) said that he believes that the decision regarding abortion rights should be left up to the US states, but did not mention his position on a national abortion ban. What did Trump say? The presumptive Republican presidential nominee weighed in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics months ahead of the upcoming elections in November, in a video post on his social media platform, Truth Social. Trump has previously indicated support for a 15-week federal ban with exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother. He also reiterated his support for the availability of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Also Read | Will Trump ask Ukraine to give up some land to end war? His campaign denies any such plans “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. In this case, the law of the state,” said the former president. He also said that many states will be “different” and have “different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” Trump added. However, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee did not mention anything about a national ban to prohibit abortions beyond a certain number of weeks into a pregnancy. In his video, on Monday, the former president also took credit for overturning the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade which effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion. The reversal of the five-decade-old decision has led more than a dozen states to ban or severely restrict women’s ability to access safe and legal abortion. “This 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the federal hands and brought it into the hearts, minds and vote of the people in each state. It was really something. Now it’s up to the states to do the right thing,” said Trump. Notably, the court’s decision to overturn the landmark decision triggered a backlash among voters and reportedly affected Republican gains in several states during the 2022 midterm elections. About Biden’s stance Meanwhile, incumbent President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden has made his predecessor and Republicans’ opposition to abortion rights a key tenet of his re-election campaign. Also Read | Trump wants immigrants only from 'nice' countries like 'Denmark, Switzerland' “Donald Trump is endorsing every single abortion ban in the states, including abortion bans with no exceptions. And he’s bragging about his role in creating this hellscape,” said Ammar Moussa, director of rapid response for the Biden campaign, on X, on Monday. Earlier this month, Biden denounced a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court which allows a six-week ban on abortion to take effect. On April 1, the state’s top court upheld a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The incumbent president slammed Republicans for limiting reproductive rights in Florida and other US states saying that it is “putting the health and lives of millions of women at risk.” (With inputs from agencies)

Donald Trump says US states should decide abortion law, dodges stand on national ban

A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don't share them.&nbsp;The lawsuit filed in St. Louis is the latest of many attempts&nbsp;to challenge restrictive abortion laws enacted by conservative states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. That landmark ruling left abortion rights up to each state to decide.&nbsp;

Since then, religious abortion rights supporters have increasingly used religious freedom lawsuits in seeking to protect abortion access. The religious freedom complaints are among nearly three dozen post-Roe lawsuits that have been filed against 19 states' abortion bans, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.&nbsp;

The Missouri lawsuit brought on behalf of 13 Christian, Jewish and Unitarian Universalist leaders seeks a permanent injunction barring the state from enforcing its abortion law and a declaration that provisions of its law violate the Missouri Constitution.&nbsp;

"What the lawsuit says is that when you legislate your religious beliefs into law, you impose your beliefs on everyone else and force all of us to live by your own narrow beliefs,"&nbsp;said Michell Banker of the National Women's Law Center, the lead attorney in the case. "And that hurts us. That denies our basic human rights."

Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, a Republican, called the lawsuit "foolish."

"We were acting on the belief that life is precious and should be treated as such. I don't think that's a religious belief," Rowden said.&nbsp;

Within minutes of last year's Supreme Court decision, then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Gov. Mike Parson, both Republicans, filed paperwork to immediately enact a 2019 law prohibiting abortions "except in cases of medical emergency".

That law contained a provision making it effective only if Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The law makes it a felony punishable by 5 to 15 years in prison to perform or induce an abortion. Medical professionals who do so also could lose their licences. The law says that women who undergo abortions cannot be prosecuted.&nbsp;

Missouri already had some of the nation's more restrictive abortion laws and had seen a significant decline in the number of abortions performed, with residents instead travelling to clinics just across the state line in Illinois and Kansas.&nbsp;

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the faith leaders by Americans United for Separation of Church &amp; State and the National Women's Law Center, said sponsors and supporters of the Missouri measure "repeatedly emphasised their religious intent in enacting the legislation".&nbsp;

It quotes the bill's sponsor, Republican state Rep. Nick Schroer, as saying that "as a Catholic I do believe life begins at conception and that is built into our legislative findings."&nbsp;A co-sponsor, Republican state Rep. Barry Hovis, said he was motivated "from the Biblical side of it," according to the lawsuit.&nbsp;

"I'm here today because none of our religious views on abortion or anything else should be enshrined into our laws," Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis and one of the plaintiffs, said at a news conference.&nbsp;

Lawsuits in several other states take similar approaches.&nbsp;

In Indiana, lawyers for five anonymous women,&nbsp;who are Jewish, Muslim and spiritual,&nbsp;and advocacy group Hoosier Jews for Choice have argued that state's ban infringes on their beliefs. Their lawsuit specifically highlights the Jewish teaching that a fetus becomes a living person at birth and that Jewish law prioritizes the mother's life and health.&nbsp;

A court ruling siding with the women was appealed by the Indiana attorney general's office, which is asking the state Supreme Court to consider the case.&nbsp;

In Kentucky, three Jewish women sued, claiming the state's ban violates their religious rights under the state's constitution and religious freedom law.&nbsp;

They allege that Kentucky's Republican-dominated legislature "imposed sectarian theology" by prohibiting nearly all abortions. The ban remains in effect while the Kentucky Supreme Court considers a separate case challenging the law.&nbsp;

But Banker said Missouri's lawsuit is unique because while plaintiffs in other states claimed harm, "we are saying that the whole law violates separation of church and state and we're seeking to get everything struck down."&nbsp;

Missouri Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, said in a statement that he will "defend the right to life with every tool at my disposal."&nbsp;

"I want Missouri to be the safest state in the nation for children and that includes unborn children," Bailey said.

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A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don't share them. The lawsuit filed in St. Louis is the latest of many attempts to challenge restrictive abortion laws enacted by conservative states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. That landmark ruling left abortion rights up to each state to decide. Since then, religious abortion rights supporters have increasingly used religious freedom lawsuits in seeking to protect abortion access. The religious freedom complaints are among nearly three dozen post-Roe lawsuits that have been filed against 19 states' abortion bans, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. The Missouri lawsuit brought on behalf of 13 Christian, Jewish and Unitarian Universalist leaders seeks a permanent injunction barring the state from enforcing its abortion law and a declaration that provisions of its law violate the Missouri Constitution. "What the lawsuit says is that when you legislate your religious beliefs into law, you impose your beliefs on everyone else and force all of us to live by your own narrow beliefs," said Michell Banker of the National Women's Law Center, the lead attorney in the case. "And that hurts us. That denies our basic human rights." Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, a Republican, called the lawsuit "foolish." "We were acting on the belief that life is precious and should be treated as such. I don't think that's a religious belief," Rowden said. Within minutes of last year's Supreme Court decision, then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Gov. Mike Parson, both Republicans, filed paperwork to immediately enact a 2019 law prohibiting abortions "except in cases of medical emergency". That law contained a provision making it effective only if Roe v. Wade was overturned. The law makes it a felony punishable by 5 to 15 years in prison to perform or induce an abortion. Medical professionals who do so also could lose their licences. The law says that women who undergo abortions cannot be prosecuted. Missouri already had some of the nation's more restrictive abortion laws and had seen a significant decline in the number of abortions performed, with residents instead travelling to clinics just across the state line in Illinois and Kansas. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the faith leaders by Americans United for Separation of Church & State and the National Women's Law Center, said sponsors and supporters of the Missouri measure "repeatedly emphasised their religious intent in enacting the legislation". It quotes the bill's sponsor, Republican state Rep. Nick Schroer, as saying that "as a Catholic I do believe life begins at conception and that is built into our legislative findings." A co-sponsor, Republican state Rep. Barry Hovis, said he was motivated "from the Biblical side of it," according to the lawsuit. "I'm here today because none of our religious views on abortion or anything else should be enshrined into our laws," Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis and one of the plaintiffs, said at a news conference. Lawsuits in several other states take similar approaches. In Indiana, lawyers for five anonymous women, who are Jewish, Muslim and spiritual, and advocacy group Hoosier Jews for Choice have argued that state's ban infringes on their beliefs. Their lawsuit specifically highlights the Jewish teaching that a fetus becomes a living person at birth and that Jewish law prioritizes the mother's life and health. A court ruling siding with the women was appealed by the Indiana attorney general's office, which is asking the state Supreme Court to consider the case. In Kentucky, three Jewish women sued, claiming the state's ban violates their religious rights under the state's constitution and religious freedom law. They allege that Kentucky's Republican-dominated legislature "imposed sectarian theology" by prohibiting nearly all abortions. The ban remains in effect while the Kentucky Supreme Court considers a separate case challenging the law. But Banker said Missouri's lawsuit is unique because while plaintiffs in other states claimed harm, "we are saying that the whole law violates separation of church and state and we're seeking to get everything struck down." Missouri Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, said in a statement that he will "defend the right to life with every tool at my disposal." "I want Missouri to be the safest state in the nation for children and that includes unborn children," Bailey said. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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In the United States, a man in Ohio was arrested on Tuesday (July 12) and has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl, who became pregnant but was denied an abortion under state law. The local media reported Wednesday that the victim crossed state lines to terminate her pregnancy.&nbsp;

The shocking case has received massive media attention from all parts of the country, and even the world as it comes in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.&nbsp;

Media outlet Indianapolis Star first reported the story and drew international scrutiny.

The Dispatch reports that Fuentes confessed to raping the young girl "on at least two occasions".&nbsp;

The case was so appalling that some people even raised questions. It was even questioned by conservative-leaning media outlets.&nbsp;

But in the latest development, the Ohio police detective Jeffrey Huhn testified in court early Wednesday, confirming that the unidentified girl underwent an abortion in Indianapolis on June 30.&nbsp;

According to the paper, Huhn was testifying at the arraignment of a man arrested Tuesday by police who say he confessed to raping the child.&nbsp;

The Dispatch reported that the DNA samples obtained from the Indiana clinic were being tested against the 27-year-old suspect.&nbsp;

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In the United States, a man in Ohio was arrested on Tuesday (July 12) and has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl, who became pregnant but was denied an abortion under state law. The local media reported Wednesday that the victim crossed state lines to terminate her pregnancy. The shocking case has received massive media attention from all parts of the country, and even the world as it comes in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Media outlet Indianapolis Star first reported the story and drew international scrutiny. The Dispatch reports that Fuentes confessed to raping the young girl "on at least two occasions". The case was so appalling that some people even raised questions. It was even questioned by conservative-leaning media outlets. But in the latest development, the Ohio police detective Jeffrey Huhn testified in court early Wednesday, confirming that the unidentified girl underwent an abortion in Indianapolis on June 30. According to the paper, Huhn was testifying at the arraignment of a man arrested Tuesday by police who say he confessed to raping the child. The Dispatch reported that the DNA samples obtained from the Indiana clinic were being tested against the 27-year-old suspect. (With inputs from the agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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