abortion is a matter for the states. That is the position that President Trump took when he was running for re-election in 2024. The Supreme Court, including three members he appointed, eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022. And there were questions about a future national ban. Trump said he wouldn't sign one. 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.

And he acknowledged in this video statement that it could mean a wide range of policies.

Many states will be different.

Many will have a 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.

But not everyone in his party agrees.

Dobs v. Jackson did not simply, quote, kick back the issue of abortion to the states.

That's Republican Congressman Bob Onder of Missouri, co-chair of the pro-life caucus, speaking on the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision. The wording in the court's opinion was very clear. The authority to

regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.

Members of Congress and senators are elected representatives.

And one of the measures Ander suggested was cutting off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

The law already banned federal dollars from paying for abortions, but Planned Parenthood provides other kinds of

medical care, and the government has paid for some of it. From 2019 to 2021,

Planned Parenthood received $1.5 billion, yes, that's billion with a B, from Medicaid chip,

and $3.3 million from Medicare. There is no reason we cannot immediately turn off

Planned Parenthood's government cash flow. And that's what Republicans did. They included a provision

in their one big, beautiful bill act that banned Medicaid payments to large health care

providers that offer abortions. And Trump signed it into law this summer.

Planned Parenthood called it a backdoor abortion ban.

This is going to be devastating for the patients that Planned Parenthood serves.

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