Donald Trump has signalled his support for a pro-abortion agenda should he be re-elected as president in November. He had previously appointed judges to the Supreme Court who had helped to overturn Roe vs Wade. The ruling shifted responsibility for abortion laws back to the individual states.

Last week, Trump wrote: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights”, meaning abortion.

His running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, said Trump would veto any attempt to ban abortion at a federal level, preferring instead for the issue to left to individual states.

But even at a State-level, his pro-choice leanings are evident. Last September, Trump said of the 6-week abortion ban Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed, “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”

In November, Floridians will vote on a proposal to overturn that ban and institute a radical abortion regime. On Thursday, Trump, a Florida resident, said: “I think the six week is too short, there has to be more time, . . . I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”

Last week, Trump also pledged to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments entirely free.

IVF has been a political issue since the state of Alabama recognised embryos as persons with rights. This prompted some clinics to shut services temporarily as they used to routinely discard ‘excess’ embryos.

Trump supports IVF and now wants it paid for with taxpayers money or by health insurance companies.