What Evangelicals Think of Trump's Abortion Flip-Flop

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Former president Trump frequently takes credit for helping to overturn Roe v. Wade. But in recent weeks, he has posted on Truth Social, his social media site, that his administration would be “great for women and their reproductive rights.” He suggested that he might vote for a Florida ballot measure allowing abortion up to around 24 weeks, before reversing his position. And he floated the idea that under a Trump administration, in vitro fertilization treatments would be covered by insurance companies or the federal government. With these shifting messages, Donald Trump is basically daring anti-abortion voters to turn on him. So will they? On this week’s show, we check in with Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a leading voice for American evangelicals, to find out.

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0:00.0	If you'd been trying to follow Donald Trump's position on reproductive rights in recent weeks,
0:06.0	you'd be forgiven for being confused.
0:08.0	Because while Democrats were busy finding a new nominee,
0:12.0	the Republicans have been trying to find a new message
0:14.6	on one of the most important issues in the election. Many people have asked me
0:19.8	what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,
0:23.6	especially since I was proudly the person responsible
0:26.7	for the ending of something that all legal scholars
0:30.1	both sides wanted and, fact demanded be ended.
0:34.3	Row v. Wade.
0:38.3	After months of claiming credit for overturning Row v. Wade,
0:42.0	Donald Trump posted on Truth Social a few weeks ago.
0:45.3	Trump shared on Truth Social this quote.
0:47.2	He said, my administration will be great for women.
0:49.2	Saying his administration will be great for women
0:51.9	and reproductive rights.
0:54.0	Shortly after, Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance, did an interview with NBC
0:59.0	where he said Trump would veto any federal abortion ban.
1:03.4	I think it would be very clear he would not support it.
1:05.3	I mean, he said that explicitly.
1:06.7	Yeah, I mean, if you're not supporting it as the President of the United States,
1:09.0	you fund it only have veto a federal abortion ban.
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