Donald Trump is reportedly floating a federal 16-week restriction on abortion, leaving anti-abortion leaders reeling.
The likely Republican nominee is beloved by many in the anti-abortion movement. But a 16-week ban would prohibit around 6% of abortions and not go far enough for many conservatives who want to see the former president go much further.
“We need Trump to finish what he started. We need Trump to end abortion in America,” said Mark Lee Dickson, an anti-abortion activist who helped pave the way for Texas’ lawsuit-enforced six-week ban and several city ordinance restrictions. A 16-week federal ban is “not enough,” he said, because “we cannot live in an America that recognizes unborn children are human beings and, simultaneously, says that mothers should be allowed to kill their children.”