Donald Trump Tells Women They’ll ‘No Longer Be Thinking About Abortion’ if He Wins the Presidency

During an unusual plea aiming to boost his standing with female voters, the former president suggested that he will make reproductive rights a topic of the past

With less than two months until Election Day, former President Donald Trump is making a play for women voters by suggesting that reproductive rights will be a topic of the past if he is elected to another term.

In an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, Sept. 20, he told women that their current lives are "miserable" and vaguely promised to help them flourish, including by getting abortion off people's minds.

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“Women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago!” Trump’s post began.

He continued, “I will fix all of that, and fast, and at long last this national nightmare will be over. Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free! You will no longer be thinking about abortion, because it is now where it always had to be, with the States, and a vote of the people.”

The former president then repeated a false claim that Democrats support the “execution of a baby after birth.”

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Trump held a campaign rally in the swing state of North Carolina one day after his Truth Social post, where he shared the same message about women's livelihood.

“I will protect women at a level never seen before. They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure,” Trump said at the rally. “Their lives will be happy, beautiful, and their lives will be great again. So women, we love you. We’re going to take care of you.”

MSNBC reports that a recent poll from NBC News shows Trump trailing Vice President Kamala Harris by 21 points with women voters — which is worse than his numbers in 2016 (12 points behind) and 2020 (15 points behind).

During their first (and likely only) presidential debate on Sept. 10, Trump and Harris went head-to-head on the topic of abortion, with the vice president vowing to reinstate Roe v. Wade while Trump celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning it.

"One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to believe the government and Donald Trump certainly should not be telling women what to do with their body," Harris said.

Hours before Trump attempted to woo female voters on Truth Social, Harris also accused her opponent of being the man behind the reproductive rights "crisis."

Addressing the impact of state abortion bans during an Atlanta rally, Harris said, "It's happening every day in our country: an untold number of people suffering, women, who are also being made to feel as though they did something wrong."

"So to those women, to those families, I say on behalf of what I believe we all say: We see you, and you are not alone, and we are all here standing with you," she continued.

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Harris then said that the overturning of Roe v. Wade sparked a "healthcare crisis," adding, "And Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis."

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