WATCH: Trump praises 'strength' of Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade | ABC Presidential Debate

want to turn to the issue of abortion. President Trump, you've often touted that you were able to kill Roe v. Wade last year you said that you were proud to be the most pro-life president in American history. Then last month you said that your administration would be great for women and their reproductive rights in your home state of Florida, you surprised many with regard to your six week abortion ban because you initially had said that it was too short and you said, quote, I'm going to be voting that we need more than 6 weeks, but then The very next day you reverse course and said you would vote to support the six week ban. Vice President Harris says that women shouldn't trust you on the issue of abortion because you've changed your position so many times. Therefore, why should they trust you? Well, the reason I'm doing that vote is because the plan is, as you know, the vote is, they have abortion in the 9th month. They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor is doing an excellent job. But the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we'll execute the baby, and that's why I did that, because that predominates because they're radical. The Democrats are radical in that, and her vice presidential pick, which I think is a horrible pick, by the way, for our country because he is really out of it, but her vice presidential pick says abortion in the 9th month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after Birth, it's execution, no longer abortion because the baby is born is OK and that's not OK with me, hence the vote, but what I did is something for 52 years they've been trying to get Roe v. Wade into the states and through the uh genius and, and heart and strength of 6 Supreme Court justices, we were able to do that. Now I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother. I believe strong. Ronald Reagan did also 85% of Republicans do exceptions, very important, but we were able to get it and now states are voting on it. And for the first time you're going to see, look, this is an issue that's torn our country apart for 52 years. Every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal, conservative, they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote, and that's what happened, happened now, Ohio. The vote was somewhat liberal. Kansas, the vote was somewhat liberal, much more liberal than people would have thought, but each individual state is voting. It's the vote of the people now. It's not tied up in the federal government. I did a great service in doing it. It took courage to do it. And the Supreme Court had great courage in doing it, and I give tremendous credit to those 6 justices. There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born

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