In an interview in the May 2024 issue of Time magazine, former US President Donald Trump said that as president, he would check with all pregnant women to make sure they are not doing anything that could endanger their unborn child or terminate their pregnancy. It said it would force it to comply with continuous government monitoring.
“Each state should be able to do what they want, including monitoring a woman's pregnancy,” Trump said regarding abortion bans, Time magazine reported.
On May 1, 2024, Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe told “I will,” he told Time magazine, according to a post.
The text, which is said to be a paraphrase of a passage from Time magazine's lengthy May 2024 issue, misrepresented what the former president actually said. In fact, President Trump has said he will leave the abortion issue to each state. Tribe did not immediately respond to Snopes' request for comment.
Regarding abortion bans, the novel's author Eric Cortelessa writes, “President Trump has said these policies, including monitoring of women's pregnancies, should be left to states to do whatever they want.” Ta. Cortelessa asked if President Trump would be comfortable with states prosecuting women for having abortions beyond what is legally allowed. Once again, Trump prioritized states' rights.
As president, Trump nominated three Supreme Court justices who he voted to overturn. Roe v. Wade And he claims credit for his role in ending the constitutional right to abortion.
At the same time, he said he would not sign a federal ban, trying to assuage a major campaign problem for Democrats.
In an interview at Mar-a-Lago, he rejected a promise to veto any additional federal restrictions.
More than 20 states currently have full or partial abortion bans, and President Trump has argued that these policies, including monitoring of women's pregnancies, should be left to states as they wish.
“I think they might,” he says. When I ask him if he's comfortable with the state prosecuting women for having abortions beyond what the law allows, he says, “It doesn't matter if I'm comfortable or not. It's completely irrelevant. Because it's up to the states to make those decisions.''
More precisely, Trump told Time magazine that as president, he would not prevent states from passing and enforcing laws establishing systems to monitor people's pregnancies.
President Trump didn't say he would do that. actively impose President Trump's claim that he intended to pass a federal law requiring pregnant women to “subject to continuous government surveillance” to prevent abortions was “false.”
