GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Thursday predicted that Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, would be overturned if Donald Trump is elected president.
"I'm pro-life and I don't apologize for it," he said during a town hall meeting here. "We'll see Roe vs. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs."
The comments _ made in a conservative stronghold that strongly supported Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over Trump in the Michigan primary _ were part of a broader argument Pence has been making on the stakes of the election: Voters need to consider that the next president will likely select multiple Supreme Court justices.
Pence said Trump would appoint strict constitutionalists in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
"While we're choosing a president for the next four years, this next president will make decisions that will impact our Supreme Court for the next 40," he said. "... Go tell your neighbors and your friends, for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment, for the sake of all our other God-given liberties, we must insure the next president appointing justices to the Supreme Court is Donald Trump."
