Trump:'God's decision' Overthrow Roe
The decision to allow the state to ban abortion "will work for everyone," the former president said in an interview with Fox News.
"This will bring you back to where everything always belonged." Donald Trump said. "This is in accordance with the Constitution and to return rights when they should have been given long ago." | Cessherald / Getty Images
Friday's former President Donald Trump has access to American abortion He acknowledged God's intervention in the Supreme Court's decision to overturn decades of case law protecting rights.
"God made the decision"Trump said in an interview with Fox News.
"This will bring everything back to where it always belonged," Trump said. "This is to return the right according to the Constitution when it should have been given long ago."
The former president is the basis of the court's decision to overturn the widely accepted protection of abortion rights in spawning. It was Trump's three judges, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, who abandoned past decisions in favor of the right to abortion. Kavanaugh and Barrett each replaced former judges (Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, respectively) who supported the right to abortion.
Judge Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion on Friday, and Clarence Thomas, who wrote the consent form, were appointed by President George W. Bush and President George H.W. Bush respectively.
The constitutional right to abortion was valid for almost 50 years before being overturned on Friday morning. After the decision, some states were expected to immediately ban the procedure, and some could imposecriminal penalties on abortion providers or patients.
On Twitter, former Vice President Mike Pence was one of dozens of conservative politicians celebrating the High Court's decision. Pence, a longtime opponent of abortion rights, went a step further and demanded a nationwide ban on abortion.
"Now that the Roe v. Wade case has been entrusted to the ash heap of history, we must not rest and forgive until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in all states. "No, land," the former Vice President wrote on Twitter.
