<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized Republican governors who have signed pro-life laws — also known as &#8220;heartbeat laws&#8221; — that ban abortion after six weeks, calling the bill signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis &#8220;a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump made the remarks during a Sunday <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bring-country-together-abortion-meet-the-press-rcna105311">interview</a> with Kristen Welker on NBC News&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; in which she pressed to get specifics on where Trump stood on the issue, telling him that her goal was to &#8220;give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election a very clear sense of where you stand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked initially by Welker if he would &#8220;sign federal legislation that banned abortion at 15 weeks,&#8221; Trump replied, &#8220;No, no, let me tell you what I&#8217;d do: I&#8217;m going to come together with all groups, and we&#8217;re going to have something that&#8217;s acceptable.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Right now, to my thinking, the Democrats are the radicals&#8221; on the issue, he added, citing Democrats&#8217; support of abortion without limits and New York&#8217;s abortion laws.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think they’re all going to like me, I think both sides are going to like me,&#8221; Trump told Welker when pressed for more details. &#8220;What&#8217;s going to happen is you&#8217;re going to come up with a number of weeks or months, you&#8217;re going to come up with a number that&#8217;s going to make people happy.&#8221;</p>
<p>He went on to add that the vast majority of Democrats &#8220;don&#8217;t want to see abortion after a certain period of time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Welker eventually pressed Trump again about a 15-week abortion ban, asking, &#8220;If a federal ban landed on your desk if you were re-elected, would you sign it at 15 weeks?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks, that seems to be a number that people are talking about right now,&#8221; he replied.</p>
<p>&#8220;Would you sign that?&#8221; she interjected.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I’m not going to say I would or I wouldn’t.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Asked if this action would be on the federal level, Trump said, &#8220;It could be state or it could be federal. I don’t, frankly, care.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump continued by taking aim at his top opponent in the Republican Party primary race.</p>
<p>&#8220;I mean, DeSanctus is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban,&#8221; Trump said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Would you support that?&#8221; Welker asked. &#8220;You think that goes too far?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,&#8221; Trump answered.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">TRUMP: “DeSanctus is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban.”</p>
<p>WELKER: “Would you support that? You think that goes too far?</p>
<p>TRUMP: “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.” <a href="https://t.co/PghjuC5SKR">pic.twitter.com/PghjuC5SKR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1703508648713216474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Trump&#8217;s remarks disavowing heartbeat laws come as numerous Republican states have implemented the policies or even more restrictive measures. The Florida Supreme Court is currently hearing challenges to the state&#8217;s 15-week abortion ban and, if the Court upholds the law, the new heartbeat law will go into effect 30 days later.</p>
<p>States with <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10779">heartbeat laws</a> include Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.</p>

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