Biden Campaign Ad Targets Trump on Abortion

President Biden’s campaign will release a new advertisement on Monday taking direct aim at former President Donald J. Trump’s abortion policy, arguing that he is largely responsible for the end of Roe v. Wade, according to a campaign official.

The advertisement, to run on digital TV in battleground states, is part of the campaign’s $50 million July ad push.

In his 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump pledged that he would appoint multiple anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court, with a goal of overturning Roe. When the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022 ended the constitutional right to an abortion, Mr. Trump took credit.

The advertisement, titled “Her Own” and obtained by The New York Times, quotes Mr. Trump during the presidential debate last month with Mr. Biden, saying that “it’s been a great thing” that justices he appointed helped overturn Roe.

“Ask yourself: Who do you want in the White House — the man proud to overturn Roe v. Wade, or the president fighting for your rights?” the ad’s narrator says.

Social conservatives have long sought more rigid restrictions on abortion nationwide, but these measures have been a losing issue for Republicans in federal, state and local races since 2022. Mr. Trump has also tried to tread more lightly on abortion. He said at the debate that, rather than having a nationwide ban, he hoped individual states would decide on abortion rights.

The ad is aimed at addressing one of Mr. Biden’s weak spots in the debate, when he gave a muddled response on the issue, and since then he has used campaign speeches to redouble his promise to restore Roe v. Wade if he is re-elected, one of his campaign’s most enduring policy pledges.

Mr. Biden’s campaign, under intense scrutiny after his