The pro-life movement is unhappy with President Donald Trump. This discontent has been building throughout his second, nonconsecutive term and is coming to a head months before the midterm elections.
Trump had won over skeptical social conservatives of most stripes during his first term. Allies billed him the “most pro-life president in history.” All three of Trump’s Supreme Court appointees voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, delivering the biggest pro-life victory in the movement’s history.
In a 2016 presidential debate, Trump explicitly promised that outcome when moderator Chris Wallace asked if he would like to see Roe reversed.
“Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that will happen, and it will happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court,” Trump said. “I will say this, it will go back to the states, and the states will then make a determination.”
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