“The doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb. My position has not changed — like Ronald Reagan, I am pro-life with exceptions.”
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All three cited sources were fetched and verified reachable, and all three quotes appear on their pages (one with a trivial pronoun paraphrase). The two core components of this position-promise are supported: (1) "Doctor responsible, not the woman" — PolitiFact confirms Trump's March 30, 2016 "punishment" remark, his same-day walkback stating physicians not women bear responsibility, and no evidence over seven years of reversal; KFF's verified quote confirms the post-Dobbs framework criminalizes clinicians. (2) "Pro-life with exceptions, like Reagan" — Newsweek verbatim confirms Trump's May 19, 2019 reaffirmation naming Reagan and the three exceptions (rape, incest, life of the mother). The FULL/kept outcome holds. One defect: the rationale's claim that states "expressly exempt the pregnant patient from prosecution" is NOT supported by the KFF source (KFF is silent on patient exemptions and notes a Louisiana case where a mother was indicted) — but this is an interpretive rationale gloss, not a fabricated cited quote, and not central to the promise. Confidence tempered from 0.85 to 0.80 to reflect that overstatement plus the inferential link between Trump's actions and the downstream state legal framework.
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