
Thursday, during a televised town hall on FNC’s “Hannity,” former President Donald Trump, also a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, took credit for overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized elective on-demand abortion.
The decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court last year in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling.
Partial transcript as follows:
HANNITY: On all of these issues, you know, what is the best way that you see this settled?
TRUMP: Well, I did something that nobody thought was possible. I got rid of Roe v. Wade.
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TRUMP: And by doing that, by doing that, it put pro-lifers in a very strong negotiating position. Now they’re negotiating different things.
And, you know, I happen to be of the Ronald Reagan school in terms of exemptions where you have the life of the mother, rape.