President Joe Biden‘s campaign released an ad castigating former President Donald Trump‘s stance on abortion on the same day he called for states to decide on abortion limits while sidestepping whether he would endorse a 15-week federal abortion ban.
The 60-second “Willow’s Box” ad featured a testimonial from Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who was unable to receive an abortion after she suffered a miscarriage.
After showing a clip of Amanda and her husband, Josh, discussing their baby Willow, the campaign claimed that “because Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Amanda was denied standard medical care to prevent infection, an abortion. Doctors were forced to send her home.”
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Zurawski almost died twice after sepsis led to a visit to the intensive care unit. According to the Biden campaign, Zurawski may not ever become pregnant again.
“Donald Trump did this,” the campaign said as Zurawski cried, recounting her story.
In a video statement posted to Truth Social on Monday, the former president said it is “up to the states to do the right thing” on how far they will limit abortion.
Biden campaign officials held a press call Monday afternoon, further attacking Trump’s abortion comments.
“Last month, Trump’s MAGA allies and Congress introduced a budget proposal that would ban abortion nationally and threatened access to contraception and IVF,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a call with reporters Monday afternoon. “And it is a certainty that Trump would happily sign if it crossed his desk”
Another Texan woman, Kaitlyn Kash, joined Chavez Rodriguez to speak with reporters, where she discussed pregnancy complications that caused her to seek an abortion outside the Lone Star State due to confusion around the state’s abortion ban.
“What I went through didn’t need to happen, but it did because of Donald Trump,” Kash said. “Again this morning, Donald Trump said he was proud to overturn Roe v. Wade. It is unthinkable to me that anyone could cheer on the cruel abortion ban that threatened my life and has caused my family so much pain, but he does.”
Chavez Rodriguez’s comments followed Biden’s statement Monday morning, where he claimed Trump was “scrambling” after repeatedly bragging about being indirectly responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“He’s worried that since he’s the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024,” Biden said. “Well, I have news for Donald. They will. America was built on personal freedom and liberty. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that is what Donald Trump has done.”
Since the fall of Roe, Trump has waffled over whether state abortion limits are “terrible” as he described Florida’s six-week abortion ban and privately contemplating a 15- or 16-week national abortion ban.
Often, Trump’s difficulty in pinpointing what his exact stance on abortion is has angered anti-abortion groups and allies on Capitol Hill.
Trump’s old running mate, former Vice President Mike Pence, denounced Trump’s comments on social media.
“President Trump’s retreat on the Right to Life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him in 2016 and 2020,” Pence, who previously said he will not endorse Trump’s 2024 bid, wrote on X.
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However, most of the aggrieved anti-abortion leaders were not willing to abandon Trump in his rematch against Biden.
“Concerned Women for America favors federal limits on abortion,” Penny Young Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “However, the reality of a stark choice between President Joe Biden who supports abortion: any number, any reason, up until birth all paid for by the taxpayer and President Trump who gave us three Constitutionalist justices, 220 lower court judges, appointees who support life and the overturn of Roe v Wade has my endorsement and support in November for President.”