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Biden’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan, Trump Clarifies Position on Abortion, Vatican Opposes Gender Surgeries | April 8

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Former President Donald Trump clarifies his view on abortion. The Vatican declares transgender surgery and surrogacy to be grave violations of human dignity. President Joe Biden announces a new student loan forgiveness plan. During a protest in Dearborn, Michigan on Friday, people were heard chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”  Total solar eclipse seen across parts of U.S. Relevant Links https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/08/trump-makes-position-abortion-clear-states-will-determine/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, April 8th.

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Here are today's headlines. Former President Donald Trump clarified his views on abortion in a video on true social this morning.

0:27.0

According to the former President, each state should follow the will of the people and state-specific laws on abortion.

0:35.0

My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint

0:40.0

to states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever

0:45.7

they decide must be the law of the land, in this case, the law of the state.

0:52.4

Trump's position on abortion has previously been a bit unclear looking towards the

0:56.4

2024 presidential election, despite the fact that the president did appoint the Supreme Court

1:02.1

justices who were ultimately responsible for overturning

1:05.4

Roby Wade in June of 2022.

1:08.7

I want to thank the six justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy

1:17.2

Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, incredible people, for having the courage to allow this long-term hard-fought battle to finally end.

1:26.7

This 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the federal hands and brought it into

1:32.0

the hearts minds and vote of the federal hands and brought it into the hearts minds and vote of the people in each state

1:36.0

was really something. Trump was clear that he and the Republican Party should and will always support

1:42.0

families and women.

1:43.8

And also noted that he does support all states

1:47.9

having some exceptions to allow for abortions.

1:51.8

Like Ronald Reagan, I am strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.

1:59.0

Marjorie Danen-Feldzer is the president of Susan B Anthony List pro-life America and she responded to

2:05.2

Trump's remarks saying we are deeply disappointed in President Trump's

2:09.2

position. She added that unborn children and their mothers deserve national protection and national advocacy from the brutality of the abortion industry.

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