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On Thursday, Donald Trump weighed in on abortion rights for the first time since the Supreme Court struck down abortion-clinic restrictions in Texas, breaking a peculiar three-day silence on the issue that raised eyebrows among political observers and his socially conservative supporters.

The court declared Monday that burdensome restrictions on abortion clinics in Texas are unconstitutional, a decision that could carry sweeping consequences for other states with similar laws. Legal experts consider it the most significant decision on abortion rights in a generation.

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Trump, who boasts high support among Christian evangelical voters, did not immediately detail his thoughts on the decision. Speaking Thursday on the issue, Trump said the decision would not have come down the way it did if he had been president.

“Now if we had Scalia . . . or if Scalia was replaced by me, you wouldn’t have had that. Okay? It would’ve been the opposite,” Trump told radio host Mike Gallagher during an interview, referring to late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February.