During the second presidential debate of the 2024 election but the first between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the former president flipped the script both on the moderators who were challenging his opposition to federal abortion restrictions and on the vice president’s support for codifying unfettered abortion access nationwide.

“You should ask, will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month, OK, would you do that?” Trump said, suggesting the moderators press Harris on her own position. “Why don’t you ask questions? You could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, and probably after birth.”