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Trump’s Flip-Flop on Abortion: Revealing What He Really Thinks About Women

Trump’s actions show a troubling pattern of treating women’s rights as mere bargaining chips in his quest for power.

Libby Winkler
4 min readAug 31, 2024
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Trump’s Flip-Flop on Abortion: Revealing What He Really Thinks About Women

Donald Trump’s inconsistent stance on abortion has long been a topic of discussion, but his recent flip-flop is more revealing than ever.

It exposes not just a political calculation but a more profound disregard for women’s rights. From creating the very crisis he now seeks to distance himself from to his blatant attempts to rewrite history, Trump’s actions show a troubling pattern of treating women’s rights as mere bargaining chips in his quest for power.

The Architect of the Abortion Crisis

Trump’s role in the current abortion crisis is undeniable.

During his presidency, he appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Each of these picks was strategically chosen to fulfill a promise Trump made to his base: to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that…

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Libby Winkler
Libby Winkler

Written by Libby Winkler

Freelance writer who loves exploring the messiness of humanity, while poking around in nooks of life and shining light on all the things that make us complex..

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