
President Trump called on Congress to pass a bill that would ban abortions late in pregnancy during his State of the Union address Tuesday.
During the speech, Trump drew attention to one of his young guests in the audience, a 2-year-old girl who was born at almost 22 weeks gestation and was able to survive thanks to medical breakthroughs. He asked Congress to fund $50 million in neonatal research and also to pass a bill "finally banning the late-term abortion of babies."
Trump made a similar request last month when he became the first president to speak in-person at the March for Life, a high-profile anti-abortion rally in protest of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which legalized abortion nationwide. The anti-abortion movement has stood by Trump, who has delivered on his promises to their cause and been called the "most pro-life president in history" by leaders.
"Whether we are Republican, Democrat, or independent, surely we must all agree that every human life is a sacred gift from God," Trump said.
Trump supports a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks, known as the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The legislation failed in the Senate during the last Congress, with mostly Democrats opposed.
Most abortions occur early in pregnancy, but an estimated 1% of 862,320 abortions a year, or over 9,000 abortions, occur during the third trimester. Democrats and abortion-rights advocates have defended allowing abortion throughout pregnancy, saying that in some cases, a fetus or a pregnant woman wouldn't survive or that an abortion only occurred late because abortion restrictions made it impossible for a woman to get it earlier.
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