Our people are great,” Mr. Trump told the appreciative crowd. In a town-hall-style meeting during the campaign, Mr. Trump said that if abortion were outlawed, he believed women who had them should be punished. Later, Mr. Trump acknowledged that he had misspoken under intense questioning by Chris Matthews of MSNBC, but complained that his answer, however inartful, was unfairly made to be a big news story. Once in office, Mr. Trump embraced a conservative agenda aimed at imposing new and tougher restrictions on abortions. Days after his inauguration, Mr. Trump appointed Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, making good on a campaign promise to appoint an anti-abortion justice.

Source: New York Times May 22, 2018 23:31 UTC