Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Unite Here Convention on Friday, June 21, 2024, in New York. AP “The idea that states are able to do this is a little like saying, ‘We’re going to turn civil rights back to the states, let each state have a different rule,'” the incumbent argued. Harris has spearheaded the Biden-Harris campaign’s efforts to hit Trump for being responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Trump nominated three conservative Supreme Court justices while he was in the White House, leading the court to rule 6-3 to overturn the 1973 opinion that legalized abortion throughout the US. President Donald Trump participates in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Getty Images Trump had been initially quiet about his position on the issue, before making an announcement in April. “My view is now that we have abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state,” Trump said in a video message posted to his Truth Social page at the time. Harris’ team pointed The Post to a press release claiming Trump will ban abortion nationwide that they released after the Musk spat. “Elon Musk, who is in discussions for a role in a Trump d̶i̶c̶t̶a̶t̶o̶r̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ White House, is using the platform he overpaid for to lie to Twitter followers (yeah, we ain’t calling it X),” the campaign said in the press release. The statement noted Trump’s previous comments in 2018 supporting a federal 20-week abortion bill that was shot down by Senate Democrats. Filed under