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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

Anti-abortion groups warn Trump’s row back on position risks losing votes

a man in a blue suit and red tie speaks with his hands outstretched
Donald Trump campaigns in Glendale, Arizona, on 23 August. Photograph: Gage Skidmore/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Over the last two weeks, Donald Trump has publicly backed away from multiple anti-abortion positions – a move that Democrats see as hypocritical and that, anti-abortion activists warn, risks alienating voters who have long stood by him.

On Thursday, Trump said that, if elected, he would make the government or insurance companies cover in vitro fertilization – a type of fertility assistancethat some in the anti-abortion movement want to see curtailed. Trump also seemed to indicate that he planned to vote in favor of a ballot measure to restore abortion access in Florida, which currently bans abortion past six weeks of pregnancy. “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” Trump told NBC News in an interview.

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