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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday April 9th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today a look at Trump's latest comments on abortion.

Plus a judge rejects his effort to delay the hush money trial and President Joe Biden announces new student loan debt relief.

Former President Donald Trump said yesterday in a video posted to his truth social platform that states should choose their own abortion

policy.

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.

You must follow your heart or in many cases your religion or your faith. your in It's basically his effort to assure supporters that he is against abortion, but also to assure

moderates that he's not in favor of a national ban on abortion.

The states should decide the issues.

He's kind of trying to have the issue both ways, I would say.

And how do yesterday's comments compare with his approach historically on this issue?

Back in the 1990s when he first started talking about running for president as a Reform Party candidate.

He said he was pro-choice.

He said he didn't support abortion, but that he felt like it's an issue

that the government shouldn't be involved in.

Over the years, he gradually changed his mind.

And when he ran for president in 2016, he was very eager to get the support of religious conservatives who opposed abortion.

So he basically promised them to appoint a conservative justice to the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe versus Wade.

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