Trump never signed abortion into law.
@TomSeaSo? Trump has never signed anything into law. Trump has also never nominated any judges. All we have is a list of potential SCOTUS nominees - a list that he is under no obligation to stick to.
Donald Trump: "I'm Very Pro Choice," Partial Birth Abortion is OK (from 1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOlXidHXREDonald Trump on Abortion (from last year)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z58gGb3C0DUWhile it is very possible that Trump did have a sincere change of heart on abortion, note that Trump still supports abortion for rape, incest and “health (not life) of the mother”, cases were the mother “may die”, saying it’s basically Ronald Reagan. But it’s not and if Trump ever bothered to read anything about Regan and the 1967 CA bill he signed, Trump would know better, as would you and other Trump supporters.
There is also a lot of speculation that the supposed “friend” he refers to, the friend who wanted his wife or girlfriend to get an abortion but they didn’t and the child grew up to be a “superstar” is himself i.e. when Marla told him he was pregnant with their daughter Tiffany and Trump said as much on the Howard Stern Show – “So what are we going to do about this?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DC0ZkwAGjcReagan’s Darkest Hour
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/223437/reagans-darkest-hour-paul-kengor-patricia-clark-doernerRead the whole thing but this in particular stands out:
Nonetheless, he signed the bill. Reagan and his staff calculated that if he vetoed the bill, his veto would be overridden by the state legislature. Therefore, he decided to do what he could to make the bill less harmful, arguing for the insertion of certain language that eliminated its worst features and allowed for abortion only in rare cases — such as rape or incest, or where pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother.
The Therapeutic Abortion Act became law. And as would happen with nearly every abortion law in the years ahead, the mental-health provision was abused by patient and doctor alike. Reagan biographer Lou Cannon notes that even the bill’s Democratic sponsor confessed to being surprised that physicians so liberally interpreted the law. Reagan was shocked at the unintended consequences of his action. Morris said Reagan was left with an “undefinable sense of guilt” after watching abortions skyrocket. Cannon claims this was “the only time as governor or president that Reagan acknowledged a mistake on major legislation.” Clark called the incident “perhaps Reagan’s greatest disappointment in public life.”
It should also be noted that Roe V Wade made the law the Reagan signed moot.
