The Supreme Court struck down abortion rights on Friday, and former President Donald Trump took credit for it.
The former President spoke in Wyoming.
It was Trump who nominated three conservatives to the Supreme Court, a move that dramatically shifted the court's ideological skew.
The majority opinion of the Supreme Court on Friday gave states the power to ban abortion if they so choose.
"Today's decision, which is the biggest win for life in a generation, along with other decisions that have been announced recently, were only made possible because I delivered everything as promised."
Trump is no longer in favor of abortion. He said in a 1999 interview with NBC that he dislikes abortion. During his campaign, Trump promised to appoint pro-life judges and predicted an overturn of the abortion law. At one point in his campaign, Donald Trump said that women who get abortions need to be punished, but his campaign backtracked and said he didn't support prosecuting women who get the procedure.
In Friday's ruling, Judge Samuel Alito argued that the right to an abortion doesn't belong in the Constitution. Four other justices signed onto Alito's decision, including Trump's picks plus Justice Clarence Thomas, while Justice John Roberts disagreed with the court's move to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban but didn't side with abortion rights More than a dozen states are expected to immediately ban abortion in the wake of the ruling.
The Supreme Court overturned a landmark abortion decision.
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