Former President Donald Trump has called the Republican Party the “party of fertilization” in a recent interview. Trump also claimed “every legal scholar” backed the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Trump spoke about these and other abortion issues with FOX-2 Detroit.
He said abortion is “not that big of an issue,” even though it remains a hotbed topic in politics.
“I think the abortion issue should be largely taken off the table because the individual states are doing what they’re doing,” Trump said. “It’s really not that big of an issue.”
According to a poll by KFF, abortion is viewed as an important part of the 2024 presidential election.
“Half of voters say they think the elections for president, Congress, and state legislatures will have a ‘major impact’ on access to abortion, rising to two-thirds of Democratic voters and seven in ten voters who say abortion is their most important voting issue,” per KFF. “About four in 10 voters overall say the same about the perceived impact of the elections on access to contraception, though there are stark partisan divides on this outlook.”
“At least half of Democratic voters say they think the elections will have a ‘major impact’ on access to contraception, whereas three in 10 or fewer Republican voters say the same,” KFF reported.
The GOP presumptive candidate also said it was good for women that Roe v. Wade was overturned by a 6-3 vote where three of the conservative justices were put on the bench by Trump.
“I say, what the people decide, and whatever it is, it’s within the state and what the people decide, and it’s working out,” he said, per HuffPost. “For many, many years, people have said we’ve got to bring this back to the states to decide, and that’s now working.”
Trump also asserted that “every legal scholar” supported Roe v. Wade being overturned.
“You have to understand, every legal scholar from all over the country, all over the world, they said, ‘You have to get abortion out of the federal government, you have to take it away from the federal government, give it to the states,’ and now that’s what we’ve been able to do,” Trump said. “We’ve given it to the states, and some states have already decided, and people are satisfied with it.”
A similar assertion made by Trump previously was disputed by Mary Ziegler, a professor of law at the University of California, Davis.
“Most legal scholars, like most Americans, didn’t want Roe overturned,” Ziegler told FactCheck.org. “We can name any number of professors who submitted briefs to SCOTUS asking Roe not to be overturned.”
Trump also spoke about Republicans’ support of in vitro fertilization.
The Republicans’ fight to make sure women have access to IVF has made the Republican Party the “party of fertilization,” Trump said.
“We want to help the women because they were going to end fertilization, which is where, when the IVF, where women go to the clinics and they get help in having a baby, and that’s a good thing, not a bad thing,” Trump said. “And we’re for it a 100%. They tried to say that they weren’t for it. They actually weren’t for it and aren’t for it as much as us, but women see that.”
However, according to the HuffPost, Republican members of Congress have been against a woman’s right to IVF.
