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President Trump argued this week that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) is doing nothing but help Democrats continue to stoke the flames of division in the United States on the issue of abortion.
On Monday, President Trump announced his official policy stance on abortion, which maintained his longstanding position of pro-life advocacy coupled with the three exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.
The emphatic bottom line of Trump’s video made it clear that his position was also that abortion is a states’ rights issue, following on the heels of the successful termination of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.
According to Fox News, Sen. Graham posited his response to Trump’s opinion, arguing that “the pro-life movement has always been about the wellbeing of the unborn child – not geography.”
Trump punched back on Truth Social, writing:
“Senator Lindsey Graham should spend more time focusing on all of the many people being killed because of our now non-existent Border, and the millions of people dying in senseless, never-ending Wars that he constantly favors and promotes, and should spend less time on taking away our Great Roe v. Wade Victory of sending a complicated and controversial Issue back to the States where, according to Highly Respected Legal Scholars on both sides, it belongs.”
Trump said, “The Democrats are thrilled with Lindsey because they want this Issue to suffer for as long a period of time as possible.”
The president also reminded Americans that fighting Roe v. Wade was, for decades, “all about bringing the Issue back to the States, pursuant to the 10th Amendment and States’ Rights.”
While in office, President Trump appointed three U.S. Supreme Court justices who later contributed to overturning the controversial and long-lamented ruling, therefore terminating federal protections for abortion in America.
Trump heavily criticized the Republican response to the federal victory:
“After we won, Marjorie Dannenfelser of SBA, and Lindsey Graham, started saying, ‘No, let’s go back to the Federal Government with 0 weeks,’ and when they got nowhere, they upped it to 6 week, and more recently they upped it to 15 weeks, and were obviously willing to take the number UPWARD, UPWARD, UPWARD because they were getting nowhere with the Democrats, and they never will, because the Democrats would never give up on this Issue no matter how many weeks the Republicans went – even if they went, ‘Unlimited Abortion!’ We had a Great Victory, it’s back in the States where it belongs, and where everyone wanted it.”
