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Al Jazeera Staff

Trump says abortion should be up to US states, avoids backing national ban

'The states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,' US presidential candidate Donald Trump says about access to abortion [File: Rebecca Cook/Reuters]

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said the issue of abortion access should be left up to states to decide, eschewing calls from within his party to support a nationwide ban on the procedure in the United States.

In a video posted on his Truth Social platform on Monday, the former US president said he was “proudly the person responsible” for overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark legal precedent that had guaranteed abortion rights on the national level for decades.

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