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Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign,\u00a0the question\u00a0of Donald Trump’s “very pro-choice<\/a>” past loomed over the eventual winner’s pro-life pledges. But in his first major interview since the election, the new president-elect indicated he has no intention of reneging.<\/p>\n

On “60 Minutes” this weekend, Trump told<\/a>\u00a0journalist Lesley Stahl that he is indeed pro-life and that “the judges will be pro-life.” In the event of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em>, he explained that abortion policy “would go back to the states.”<\/p>\n

Stahl then challenged him on the potential difficulty of getting an abortion in one’s home state without Roe<\/em>\u00a0effectively mandating that abortions be permitted for any reason prior to viability. (Doe v. Bolton<\/em>, the companion ruling to Roe<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0effectively forced<\/a> states to permit late-term abortions.) In response, Trump simply answered, “Yeah, well, they\u2019ll perhaps have to go, they\u2019ll have to go to another state.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we\u2019ll see what happens,\u201d Trump added. \u201cIt\u2019s got a long way to go, just so you understand. That has a long, long way to go.”<\/p>\n

The sequence of events that would have to happen before states could directly ban abortion\u00a0includes not only replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, which would leave the Supreme Court with\u00a0a 5-4 majority in favor of\u00a0Roe<\/em>, but also replacing\u00a0at least one additional pro-Roe<\/em>\u00a0justice. Then, a new lawsuit over a state abortion ban or one similarly focused on the issues in Roe<\/em>\u00a0would need to reach the court.<\/p>\n

In addition, overturning Roe<\/em> would only directly end abortion in fifteen states<\/a>. Eleven of these states have unenforced abortion bans currently on the books, and four have passed laws stating that abortion will\u00a0not be allowed\u00a0once\u00a0Roe<\/em> is overturned.\u00a0Separate\u00a0abortion bans would have to be enacted in the\u00a0remaining states, or Congress could possibly pass a federal abortion ban under\u00a0its authority to enforce the 14th Amendment<\/a>. Pro-lifers in those fifteen states would also have to defend the laws from pro-abortion attempts to repeal them.<\/p>\n

Overturning Roe<\/em> is one of several pledges<\/a> Trump has made to pro-lifers, including permanently banning taxpayer funding of abortion, defunding Planned Parenthood, signing the 20-week abortion ban into law, and restoring tax-exempt churches’ right to engage in political speech and activity. He has also pledged that all of his Supreme Court nominees would come from a list\u00a0of jurists<\/a> which has received widespread approval from pro-life experts.<\/p>\n

Of course, whether President-elect Trump will truly govern as a pro-life president will not be confirmed until he takes office. However, reiterating his campaign promises now that the campaign is over is an encouraging sign. It’s also another on-the-record statement that\u00a0pro-lifers can remind him of if he wavers. Keeping our leaders accountable to pro-life actions is essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign,\u00a0the question\u00a0of Donald Trump’s “very pro-choice” past loomed over the eventual winner’s pro-life pledges. But in his first major interview since the election, the new president-elect indicated he has no intention of reneging. On “60 Minutes” this weekend, Trump told\u00a0journalist Lesley Stahl that he is indeed pro-life and that “the judges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":156644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDonald Trump tells '60 Minutes' Supreme Court 'judges will be pro-life'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President-elect Donald Trump told "60 Minutes" that he is standing by his campaign promise to appoint pro-life Supreme Court justices.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-to-60-minutes-the-judges-will-be-pro-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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