I'd venture to say its him self-sabotaging because hes been told to kill the populist fervor in the u.s. before it gets anymore out of control.
It's about demoralization.
One step forward, two steps back.
Maybe
He could simply have gone full-prolife-retard instead, that would have been enough, like "I'm going to ban abortion rights entirely!". But maybe it wouldn't have been enough to deter his support base, idk
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