Trump seeks to corner Democrats on the issue of late-term abortion
As Republican states across the country barrel toward more and more restrictive abortion legislation, President Donald Trump has homed in on a key issue for his 2020 platform that instead puts the focus on Democrats: late-term abortion.
"Late-term abortion," a non-medical term largely used by anti-abortion groups, accounts for just 1.3 percent of all abortions, according to a 2015 report from the Centers for Disease Control, and mostly happens because of complications for the viability of the fetus or the woman that poses a risk to health or life.
"For some time, soft spots for the pro-choice movement were seen to be later abortions, and so the kind of classic, incremental approach to attacking Roe vs. Wade would be to focus on areas where the public is already skeptical, like later abortions, and go from there.
'That's going to be good for us in 2020'While they do not reflect the majority of circumstances that lead to abortions later in pregnancy, comments from Trump and his administration about “executing” babies and “ripping” them from the womb may resonate with the large majority of voters who do not support abortions conducted in the third trimester.
The president, for his part, continues to paint Democrats as a party that has “totally abandoned the American mainstream," as he said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington in February. “But that's going to be good for us in 2020,” he added. In an October 2016 debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas, Trump said it was unacceptable that"you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day."“You should meet with the women I’ve met with; women I’ve known over the course of my life,” she said. “This is one of the worst possible choices that any woman and her family has to make. And I do not believe the government should be making it.
What both laws did seek to do is lessen some of the restrictions on abortions later in pregnancy, which, in a state like Virginia – where the bill later failed to pass – requires approval from three doctors. “Republicans and Trump are picking up on this because late-term abortion is about as unpopular as anything in the country,” said Camosy, who serves as a member on the Board of Directors for the anti-abortion rights group Democrats For Life.“I say this as a Democrat. It’s an unforced error on the part of Democrats to really put this out there because the constituency on this is just so small," he said.
In a statement to ABC News, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Trump's rhetoric was"not only dishonest, but it's incredibly dangerous.” She called the president’s assertions “100 percent false.” In his answer, Sanders advocated for a woman's right to decide with her doctor, saying abortions in the third trimester were"rare" and"being made into a political issue."
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