Trump Hardens Position on Abortion, Rails Against Indictment

  • Trump outlined agenda including abortion, war in Ukraine
  • His speech before evangelical voters showed his grip on GOP
Donald Trump during the Road to Majority’s Faith and Freedom policy conference on June 24.Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg
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Former President Donald Trump hardened his position on abortion in a speech to evangelical Christian voters, saying there’s “a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life.”

His comments to the Faith and Freedom Coalition — on the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned a 50-year constitutional right to abortion — follow weeks in which Trump has declined to say whether he would sign the 15-week federal ban sought by anti-abortion activists.