Trump Tries to Reframe Himself as Abortion Rights Advocate on Truth Social

Donald J. Trump, who precocious said helium has “no regrets” astir appointing the Supreme Court supermajority that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling connected termination rights, declared connected societal media connected Friday that his medication volition beryllium “great” for women’s “reproductive rights.”

Mr. Trump’s usage of the circumstantial operation “reproductive rights” — the connection utilized by abortion-rights advocates — appeared to beryllium an effort by the erstwhile president to refashion himself arsenic fundamentally supportive of termination rights and arsenic a governmental mean connected an contented that has the imaginable to beryllium damaging to him successful November.

“My Administration volition beryllium large for women and their reproductive rights,” helium wrote connected Friday greeting connected Truth Social, his societal media platform.

At the Democratic National Convention, the extremity of Roe — and Mr. Trump’s professed pridefulness successful appointing the justices who eliminated it — was a cardinal focus. Women told haunting, idiosyncratic stories astir the dangers they faced being denied abortions aft the ruling was overturned, with pregnancies that were not viable and that threatened their ain health.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been astatine easiness discussing reproductive rights connected behalf of the Biden-Harris administration, talked astatine magnitude successful her information acceptance code connected Thursday nighttime astir Mr. Trump’s relation successful curtailing those rights. She has framed Mr. Trump arsenic a menace to “freedoms” — reproductive state and the state of economical mobility among them.

“I judge America cannot genuinely beryllium prosperous unless Americans are afloat capable to marque their ain decisions astir their ain lives, particularly connected matters of bosom and home,” Ms. Harris said. “But tonight, successful America, excessively galore women are not capable to marque those decisions. And let’s beryllium wide astir however we got here. Donald Trump handpicked members of the United States Supreme Court to instrumentality distant reproductive freedom. And present helium brags astir it.”