Ahead of former President Donald Trump‘s rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee strategically placed billboards along highways near the former president’s rally sites that emphasize his role in dismantling abortion protections.
The billboard in Wisconsin will be placed in Waukesha on I-94, and the billboards in Michigan will be placed near his rally in Freeland on Highway 47 and Highway 84. The billboards will say, “Trump: ‘I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.’ And he won’t stop until abortion is banned nationwide. Including Wisconsin.” The billboards in Michigan will say the same but will replace “Wisconsin” with “Michigan.”
Trump, who appointed three justices to the Supreme Court who were responsible for tipping the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022, has taken credit for his role in ending national abortion protections.
While standing behind the belief that abortion policy should be decided by the states either through legislation or ballot referendum, Trump has said Arizona’s abortion ban, which criminalizes nearly all abortions, is too extreme.
“It’ll be straightened out, and as you know, it’s all about states’ rights,” Trump said in April after landing in Atlanta for a fundraiser. “It’ll be straightened out, and I’m sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason and that’ll be taken care of, I think, very quickly.”
But in a Time magazine interview published on Tuesday, Trump said, if reelected, he would not intervene if a state decided to prosecute those who violated the abortion bans or monitor women’s pregnancies.
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“Donald Trump is responsible for abortion bans across the country and just yesterday backed allowing sick and cruel state laws to punish and prosecute women for seeking an abortion,” DNC spokeswoman Addy Toevs said. “Trump won’t stop until abortion is banned in Wisconsin and across the country. Again and again, Wisconsin voters have rejected MAGA Republicans’ attempts to rip away our freedoms. Women in Wisconsin know abortion is on the ballot in 2024, and the only candidates who will protect their rights are President Biden and Vice President Harris.”
The country remains divided on where to draw the line on abortion. An April poll showed that 48% of people would support a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks.
