Donald Trump's stance on abortion
Source: Fox
Date of Publication: September 21st, 2024
is on the November ballot. The measure would prohibit laws that restrict abortion before fetal viability, generally considered to be between 22 and 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Trump quickly backtracked amid the fallout and said he would be voting "no" on the abortion amendment, which, if defeated in November, would leave Florida's six-week ban in place.
This quote is designed to make Trump look like a unique protector of women's rights in a way that appeals to female voters.
Former President Trump vowed to
"protect women at a level never seen before"
Trump, in the lengthy late-night missive to his Truth Social in all capitalized letters, said "women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago."
"I will fix all of that, and fast, and at long last this national nightmare will be over," he said. "Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free!"
if elected, and to ensure that "powerful exceptions" for abortion are adopted across the nation, in a social media post early Saturday.
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Polls have consistently shown Trump running strongly, against Vice President Kamala Harris in most demographic groups but struggling with women.
Much of that has been attributed to the fact that the three justices he picked for the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade, which had enshrined abortion protections under federal law.
In his post, Trump wrote that women "will no longer be thinking about abortion, because it is now where it always had to be, with the states, and a vote of the people—and with powerful exceptions, like those that Ronald Reagan insisted on for rape, incest, and the life of the mother—but not allowing for Democrat demanded late term abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month, or even execution of a baby after birth."
"I will protect women at a level never seen before," he said. "They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure."
Trump added: "Their lives will be happy, beautiful, and great again!"
The former president’s play for the female vote comes after Vice President Harris campaigned in Georgia, delivering a speech about the consequences of, what her campaign calls "extreme Trump Abortion Bans."
"After Vice President Harris spent the week speaking about the consequences
of Trump Abortion Bans and the stakes of this election for women’s lives,
Donald Trump snapped — taking to his phone late at night to rant and rave about women," Harris-Walz 2024 Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in response to Trump’s Truth Social post. "After ripping away our reproductive freedom, now he’s trying to tell us how to think."
Chitika said "Trump thinks he can control women — he’s wrong."
The Harris campaign said he is "terrified that women across the country will vote like our lives and freedoms depend on it, because they do."
"Women aren’t stupid. We see Trump’s Project 2025 agenda for what it is: an extreme plan to ban abortion nationwide and threaten access to IVF and birth control," Chitika said. "We’ll vote like it this November."
Leavitt added: "If women want safety, security and prosperity for our families, there’s only one option on the ballot — President Trump."
As for Project 2025, a blueprint for a Republican administration crafted by the Heritage Foundation, Leavitt repeated Trump's assertion that he did not commission it and has no plans to implement it if elected.
"President Trump has repeatedly said he has nothing to do with Project 2025," Leavitt said
adding that "Kamala’s campaign is lying because they are losing."
Harris continues to claim that Trump will install a national abortion ban that would allow for no exceptions, despite Trump repeatedly saying that he would never support a national abortion ban, and believes
in exceptions for abortion, including rape, incest, and life of the mother.
Harris has refused to say whether she
supports any supports any abortion restrictions up to birth.
Trump has vowed that he "will not block" abortion pills or abortion medication for women, should he be elected president.
This dramatic statement from Trump positions him as the best solution to helping women. Towards the end of the sentence, Trump plays on people's emotions-portraying himself as someone who can help women prosper through better health.
Undermines opposition by linking the problem of increased immigration into the USA, although Biden and Harris have deported more illegal immigrants then Trump. This was not stated by Fox.
This claim emphasizes Trump's empathy and personal involvement in consoling the relatives of the victims. This is done in an effort to enhance his reputation as a compassionate and understanding leader, particularly in contrast to his rivals, although there is no evidence to backup the fact that he is compassionate and the broader context of the scenario is not given.
Emotive quotes are utilized more throughout the text allowing for the reader to feel passion and emotion rather then focus on policy, showing how Fox Utilizes emotive quotes.
This is presented as a fact by Fox without balancing opposing views.
This context in which this quote is used does not infact contribute to the article at all other then to show an endorsement from fox of Donald Trump as there is no evidence provided by Fox or the women quoted to actually show trump can deliver on these promises.
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But Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital that Harris and President Joe Biden have put women's lives in danger, and noted the names of women who have been killed by illegal immigrants.
"President Trump is right.
Kamala may want to be the first woman president, but she’s made the lives of women worse — more dangerous and more unaffordable,"
Leavitt said. "If Kamala cared about protecting women, she would close the border and stop allowing rapists and murderers to flow into our country to prey on young women and girls. Kamala has never said the names of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nunguaray, and Rachel Morin.
President Trump has honored their lives and consoled their grieving families."