Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Sunday that last week’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling banning nearly all abortions in the state is a result of actions former President Trump took while in office.
“Let me start by saying this has been a disaster for women in Arizona. They’ve lost a fundamental right to abortion, and it’s all because of Donald Trump,” Kelly said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
“Donald Trump owns this. He said just yesterday that he broke Roe v. Wade, and because he did that, this enabled our court to bring back this draconian 1864 law to take away this right, send doctors to jail,” Kelly added.
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Sunday that last week’s Arizona Supreme Court ruling banning nearly all abortions in the state is a result of actions former President Trump took while in office.
They’ve lost a fundamental right to abortion, and it’s all because of Donald Trump,” Kelly said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
He said just yesterday that he broke Roe v. Wade, and because he did that, this enabled our court to bring back this draconian 1864 law to take away this right, send doctors to jail,” Kelly added.
His comments come as he faces backlash for saying on Monday that abortion should be left up to the states to determine policy, while appearing to say he would not sign a federal ban.
Trump has particularly been on defense since the Arizona Supreme Court ruling upheld an 1864 law and made performing the procedure a felony.
Reached for a response, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung referred The Hill to the former president’s earlier statement on the Arizona abortion ruling, saying the state’s Supreme Court “went too far” by “enacting and approving an inappropriate Law from 1864,” and labeling Democrats as the “extremists” on the issue of abortion.
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This TLDR implies that Mark Kelly thinks abortion should be left up to the states, which is false. Trump is the one who keeps flip flopping on who he wants to oppress day to day and decided that the states should be the ones to ban abortion.