Anti-Abortion Leaders Endorse Trump’s Platform for National Ban, Harris Team Responds

Recent media reports suggesting that Donald Trump has softened his stance on abortion are contradicted by statements from anti-abortion advocates.

Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life, praised Trump’s RNC platform for its commitment to a national abortion ban, highlighting the inclusion of the 14th Amendment, which she believes supports a federal ban on abortion.

Hawkins on the importance of a national ban:

“Yeah. I don’t think [a national abortion ban] has been a hidden agenda at all within the pro-life movement. We have said from the very beginning, even when we were suffering under the tyranny of Roe v. Wade, that the ultimate goal of the pro-life movement is to see no abortions in any state and women and families served and protected from the predatory abortion industry.”

Similarly, Marjorie Dannenfelser of SBA Pro-Life America applauded the platform’s pro-life stance and its emphasis on the 14th Amendment. Legal experts caution that this interpretation could impose nationwide abortion bans and affect access to IVF and birth control.

Harris for President Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:

“Donald Trump’s own words, his platform, his running mate, and his Project 2025 agenda all make it clear: He will ban abortion nationwide if he wins this November. The anti-abortion extremists he so proudly fights ‘side by side’ with know it, and voters do too. Women across the country are already suffering from the extreme abortion bans that Trump unleashed, and if he wins, he will go even further to rip away women’s freedoms, punish women, and restrict access to birth control. Trump and his Project 2025 allies are determined to drag us backwards – but women will turn out to protect our freedoms and send Vice President Harris to the White House.”