Donald Trump is facing blowback from conservatives and anti-abortion activists for calling a ban on abortion after six weeks “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake” in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” over the weekend.
It’s the latest contortion for the former president who made such laws possible with his appointment of three conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who joined in overturning Roe v. Wade last year. Yet Trump also seems to recognize the broad unpopularity of extreme abortion restrictions ahead of another likely campaign against President Joe Biden in 2024.
Kim Reynolds, the popular Republican governor of Iowa, an early presidential nominating state that Trump is seeking to win, on Tuesday spoke out against Trump’s comments without referring to him by name.
“It’s never a ‘terrible thing’ to protect innocent life. I’m proud of the fetal heartbeat bill the Iowa legislature passed and I signed in 2018 and again earlier this…
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