As president, Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett then became the key fifth vote, in the Dobbs decision, to overturn Roe v. Wade and legalize abortion bans at the state level.

These laws have proved unpopular: Voters in heavily red places like Kansas and Ohio have passed referendums that instead guarantee the right to abortion within their own state lines. And a court ruling that put the legality of in vitro fertilization at risk has triggered a backlash even in Alabama, where Republicans routinely earn more than 60 percent of votes statewide.

With Trump once again the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for the presidency, his campaign has faced questions about whether he would sign a bill banning abortion (or limiting it to a certain number of weeks into pregnancy) nationwide. On Monday, he purported to answer those questions in a statement and video on his Twitter-like social media site Truth Social.

The takeaways:

© Slate