Former President Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion, but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother because “you have to win elections.”
Abortion promises to be a galvanizing issue for some voters in the 2024 presidential election in which Trump will try to unseat Democrat President Joe Biden.
A call for a 15-week national ban is likely to displease both sides of the abortion debate, with conservative groups unhappy with what they view as an overly permissive time limit and abortion-rights activists opposing the idea of any kind of national ban.
The former Republican president, whose three conservative appointees to the Supreme Court secured the majority needed to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, has not been specific on whether he would sign a national ban into law….
