Anti-abortion groups warn Trump's row back on position risks losing votes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks," Trump told NBC News in an interview.
48% : Republican candidate's comments seen by Democrats as hypocritical and 'sadden' anti-abortion activistsOver the last two weeks, Donald Trump has publicly backed away from multiple anti-abortion positions - a move that Democrats see as hypocritical and that, anti-abortion activists warn, risks alienating voters who have long stood by him.
48% : Another says: "Donald Trump's Project 2025 Undermines Reproductive Care and Threatens IVF."Project 2025, a playbook of conservative policies drawn up by the influential Heritage Foundation, contains a long list of anti-abortion proposals.
45% : But, she continued: "What had been a strategy of 'be ambiguous and then hopefully be everything to everyone' has tilted more in the direction of Trump trying to assure voters that he doesn't agree with the anti-abortion movement.
44% : On Thursday, Trump said that, if elected, he would make the government or insurance companies cover in vitro fertilization - a type of fertility assistancethat some in the anti-abortion movement want to see curtailed.
43% : "On Friday, the DNC is rolling out billboards in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state, that slam Trump over IVF, according to a strategy shared exclusively with the Guardian.
36% : "I don't think it tells us necessarily what Trump is or isn't going to do, because he's still been leaving himself wiggle room on a lot of critical questions," said Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis, School of Law who studies the legal history of reproduction.
36% : At least one prominent anti-abortion activist, Lila Rose, has publicly declared she currently does not plan to vote for Trump, given his recent turn away from anti-abortion positions.
31% : Trump also seemed to indicate that he planned to vote in favor of a ballot measure to restore abortion access in Florida, which currently bans abortion past six weeks of pregnancy.
27% : Trump's campaign quickly rushed to walk back his remarks on the ballot measure, telling NPR that Trump simply meant that six weeks is too early in pregnancy to ban abortion.
23% : Trump has tried to distance himself from it over the last several weeks.
18% : "Trump overturned Roe, threatening the future of IVF," one billboard reads.
7% : Since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, in a decision backed by three justices that Trump appointed, Trump has alternatively bragged about toppling Roe and complained that outrage over its fall will cost Republicans elections.
4% : Last week, Trump also suggested that he would not use a 19th-century anti-vice law to ban abortion nationwide, while his running mate, JD Vance, said Trump would not sign a national ban.
4% : But Hawkins is still committed to getting people to vote for Trump - not because of Trump himself, but because she fears how a Harris presidency would strengthen abortion access.

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