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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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John Bowden

Trump says he won’t block abortion pill and repeats ‘abortions after birth’ misinformation in first debate

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Donald Trump rejected conservative efforts to ban the abortion pill mifepristone and said that he would not support such a ban as president at the first presidential debate.

Trump and President Joe Biden appeared at the event in Atlanta, where the ex-president walked away from his party’s efforts to further roll back abortion rights and said that he agreed with the decision of the Supreme Court‘s decision to keep the medication legal.

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