Trump Claims He’s Committed To Keeping Abortion Pills Accessible
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There was a lot of hedging involved, but it's still the most forthright the president-elect has been about ensuring continued access to medication abortion.
Donald Trump gave his clearest answer to date about the future of abortion pills under his administration in a new interview with Time magazine.
When asked if he would commit to making sure that abortion pills will continue to be accessible through the Food and Drug Administration, the president-elect responded: “That would be my commitment. Yeah, it’s always been my commitment.”
Trump’s comment is the most forthright he’s been about ensuring continued access to medication abortion under his administration. But in typical Trump manner, he hedged a lot before actually making the commitment, initially telling Time that his administration is “going to take a look at that” when asked to promise that his FDA would safeguard abortion pills.
Later, when pressed about his answer, Trump said it’s “unlikely, very unlikely” that his FDA would strip access to abortion pills. He continued his waffling:
I guess I could say probably as close to ruling it out as possible, but I don’t want to. I don’t want to do anything now. I want to do it at some point. There will be a time in the future where people are going to know everything about subjects like that, which are very complex subjects for people, because you have other people that, you know, they feel strongly both ways, really strongly both ways, and those are the things that are dividing up the country. But you know my stand from a very long, hard thing, and I think it’s highly unlikely that I ever change that.
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