Trump Announces Abortion now a state issue. He will not attempt a National ban

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(04-09-2024, 07:28 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Meanwhile, anti-choice folks are mad at him for this and pro-choice folks know he is full of it. If he was in office and Congress sent him a national ban, he'd sign it.

That's pretty much my expectation of what he and the GOP are planning, they're watching what even red states vote for when they're given the chance and know a national ban is the way to get what they want while simultaneously making the people that don't vote for them as miserable as possible.

The premise that Trump supports sending abortion to the states because that's what "most people want" rings a bit hollow to me, as well since our system isn't designed to automatically rule in the favor of "most people."  In 2016 Trump came up 3 million votes short of Hillary but he won because our system isn't designed to just hand the presidency to the person who gets the most votes.  Because of this Trump gets to appoint 3 supreme court justices who overturn Roe v Wade, even though most people didn't want that but again...our system isn't automatically about what most people want.

Trump appoints justices who say they wouldn't overturn Roe v Wade and then they do it.  Trump says he will leave it up to the states, and then "most people" are going to vote for Biden in 2024 and Trump may very well win the EC and the election again so he can just sign a national abortion ban and "most people" can kick rocks.


most people didn't want Trump to be president in 2016
most people didn't want Trump to appoint 3 supreme court justices
most people didn't want Roe V Wade overturned
most people didn't vote for Trump in 2020
most people don't want a national abortion ban
most people won't vote for Trump in 2024
most people won't want Trump to sign a national abortion ban


At what point are we going to stop pretending that our political system caters to what most people want?  This is a decision that will be made by congress and the president, two aspects of our government that have been specifically designed to not be beholden to the votes or the will to a nation-wide majority.


tl;dr - Trump will sign a national abortion ban and the same people who talk about most people wanting it to be a state by state thing will go right back to defending a national ban by saying that a bunch of voters in NY and CA don't count and most people not wanting it doesn't matter.