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Trump adviser: Women should be ones to decide on abortion

In this photo taken March 4, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich. Trump says he can win the state and the entire the Upper Midwest by promising to back out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the treaty blamed for the loss of countless Rust Belt jobs. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
In this photo taken March 4, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich. Trump says he can win the state and the entire the Upper Midwest by promising to back out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the treaty blamed for the loss of countless Rust Belt jobs. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

By Associated Press 1 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – One of Donald Trump’s potential running mates said Sunday that women should be the ones to decide whether or not to have abortions.

Women “are the ones that have to make the decision because they’re the…ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not,” Ret. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Flynn’s statement counters Republican policy asserting constitutional rights for the unborn.

Flynn is one of several people Trump, that presumptive Republican nominee, is considering for his vice president. Trump is expected to announce his decision at week’s end.

Trump says he opposes abortion, with exceptions. But he’s struggled over the issue. In March, he said on MSNBC that women should be punished for having illegal abortions. He then said doctors who perform the procedure are the ones who should be punished.