Trump the hero for anti-abortion movement after bending supreme court his way

The former president was once pro-choice - but the threat he posed to reproductive rights was hiding in plain sight

I'm very pro-choice." So said Donald Trump in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press in 1999, attributing his views on abortion to a little bit of a New York background".

Two decades later, the businessman and reality TV star is the unlikeliest of heroes for social conservatives and Christian evangelicals because he delivered the ultimate prize: the end of America's constitutional right to abortion.