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On 9 November 2016, an article was posted on Steel Magnificat, a Christian blog, stating that President-elect Donald Trump had removed the phrase pro-life from the policies listed on his official web site within 12 hours of winning the election: A quick perusal of the Policies section of www.donaldjtrump.com on 10 November confirmed that there was no mention of the words pro-life or abortion there (though we did find a few news articles affirming Donald Trump's pro-life stance elsewhere on the web site). What became clear upon examining archived versions of Trump's policy pages via the Wayback Machine, however, is that there never were any mentions of pro-life or abortion in that section, as Steel Magnificat admitted in a retraction posted later the same day: It did briefly appear that an entire directory of campaign press releases on www.donaldjtrump.com had been redirected to the home page sometime between 1 November 2016 and election day (8 November), but by the afternoon of 10 November all the articles were accessible again. Among the pages now on the site that contain information related to abortion policy are the following: Historically, Trump's opinion on abortion and women's right to choose has been conflicted and subject to change. During a 1999 appearance on Meet the Press, for example, Trump said, I’m very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. But ... I just believe in choice. By 2011, when he was considering a run for the presidency, however, Trump was saying he was pro-life. Let me put it this way, he told The New York Times, I am pro life, and pro-life people will find out that I will be very loyal to them, just as I am loyal to other people. I would be appointing judges that feel the way I feel. In March 2016, seven months before the election, Trump issued the following statement:
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