US President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Donald Trump for his “terrible” action against abortion rights, during their first debate for the US presidential election.
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“It’s a terrible thing, what you did,” the Democratic leader told his Republican opponent during their face-off in Atlanta.
The American Supreme Court, profoundly reworked by the former president, overturned in June 2022 the famous jurisprudence “Roe v. Wade” which guaranteed the federal right of American women to abort, giving each State back its freedom to legislate on the issue.
Around twenty American states have since adopted bans or restrictions on abortion.
Joe Biden has argued that Donald Trump would be willing to enact a law, if passed by a future Republican Congress, to ban abortion nationwide or restrict it to “six, seven, eight or ten weeks” of pregnancy, “something very conservative.”
Donald Trump defended himself by saying that this question was now up to the states: “it’s the vote of the people,” he said.
“I believe in exceptions in cases of rape, incest,” and danger to “the life of the mother,” he added. “I think it’s very important. For some, no. Follow your heart.”
Asked about the issue of the abortion pill, the former president also said he would not “block” it.
Watch the exchange between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the video above.
