Activists are claiming Donald Trump blew off a scheduled conference call with pro-life leaders on Wednesday as his position on abortion has come under renewed focus.
The Republican front-runner’s campaign disputes he was ever supposed to call in.
The controversy comes just a week after Trump came under fire for his comments regarding punishments for women who got abortions.
Trump was reportedly expected to speak to a gathering of anti-abortion leaders and activists at the 115 conference organized by Priests for Life. The Trump campaign disputes this, saying it was never on his schedule.
“What I can say is that Priests for Life carries out efforts to provide all campaigns an opportunity to connect with the pro-life leadership in America and to receive solid advice on how to deal with abortion,” Fr. Frank Pavone, who heads Priests for Life told a pro-life website. “As for Donald Trump, I far prefer the kind of mistake he made recently, and then corrected, regarding who should be punished, than the ongoing deliberate mistake of Clinton and Sanders who cannot seem to find an abortion they don’t like.”
When the business mogul first said that he backed legal penalties for women who have illegal abortions, he backtracked his comments just hours later and said the government should just target abortion practitioners instead.
Trump press secretary Hope Hicks denied that Trump was ever supposed to call in the first place. “We were never attending,” she told the Washington Examiner. “This is a false report.”
