Former president Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was willing to support contraception regulations and that his campaign would release a policy on the issue “very soon.”
The comments, made during an interview with a Pittsburgh television station, suggest that a future Trump administration might consider imposing mandates or supporting state restrictions on decisions as highly personal as women’s access to birth control.
During an interview with KDKA News, Trump was asked, “Do you support any restriction on a person’s right to contraception?” »
“We’re looking at that and I’ll have a policy on that very shortly,” Trump responded, according to a video of the interview that was briefly posted online before it aired and then removed.
The likely Republican presidential nominee was pressed for a follow-up question if that meant he wanted to support some contraception restrictions.
“It really has a lot to do with the states, and some states are going to have a different policy than others,” Trump responded, before repeating that he would issue “a very comprehensive policy” on the issue.
A Trump campaign official told The Associated Press that the former president would make an announcement regarding medication abortion, not contraception. He previously said he would issue a policy on the use of abortion pills in a Time magazine interview published three weeks ago. It’s the first time Trump has indicated he would have a policy on contraception since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the nation’s right to abortion two years ago, sparking political battles over some aspects of reproductive rights, including contraception and in vitro fertilization.
The campaign official said Trump would make an announcement about the abortion pill mifepristone “in the near future” and added that he had “never advocated for restrictions on contraceptives.” Video of the interview shows that Trump was asked about contraception, not medical abortion. or mifepristone.
The Biden campaign seized on the interview, accusing Trump of supporting “banning contraception, including the morning-after pill.”
“Women across the country are already suffering from Donald Trump’s post-Roe nightmare, and if he wins a second term, it’s clear he wants to go even further by restricting access to birth control and contraceptives urgently,” Biden-Harris spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika said. in a report.
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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price in New York contributed to this report.
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