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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Trump the hero for anti-abortion movement after bending supreme court his way

Donald Trump in February. If Roe v Wade falls, about half of the states in the US are certain or likely to ban abortion.
Donald Trump in February. If Roe v Wade falls, about half of the states in the US are certain or likely to ban abortion. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

“I’m very pro-choice.” So said Donald Trump in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press in 1999, attributing his views on abortion to “a little bit of a New York background”.

Two decades later, the businessman and reality TV star is the unlikeliest of heroes for social conservatives and Christian evangelicals because he delivered the ultimate prize: the end of America’s constitutional right to abortion.

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