President-elect Trump in a new interview signaled he would not move to restrict access to abortion pills upon taking office, even as he acknowledged “things change.”
“I’ll probably stay with exactly what I’ve been saying for the last two years. And the answer is no,” Trump told Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” when asked if he would restrict the availability of abortion pills.
“I mean, are — things do — things change. I think they change. I hate to go on shows like Joe Biden, ‘I’m not going to give my son a pardon. I will not under any circumstances give him a pardon.’ I watched this and I always knew he was going to give him a pardon,” Trump said, referencing President Biden’s reversal in giving his son, Hunter, a full pardon.
“And so, I don’t like putting myself in a position like that,” Trump added. “So things do change. But I don’t think it’s going to change at all.”
Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his first term who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, upending access to abortion across the United States as GOP-led states enacted bans on the procedure.
Trump has repeatedly said abortion access should be determined by individual states, but his victory in November’s election has raised alarm among advocates about how his incoming administration might further restrict access to abortion pills through regulations at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or through enforcement of the Comstock Act.