In one of his most bizarre interviews in recent memory, Donald Trump insisted abortion is not that big of an issue, claimed Republicans are the party of fertilization and said every legal scholar in the world supported overturning Roe v. Wade.

During an interview last week with a local Michigan TV station FOX-2 Detroit, Trump repeatedly downplayed the significance of abortion rights on the national stage despite it being a driving factor in Democrats strong performance at the ballot box in the aftermath of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Recent polling shows many voters see the 2024 election as a high-stakes election for the future of abortion and contraception access. President Joe Biden has made the issue central to his campaign , as have countless Democratic candidates .

I think the abortion issue should be largely taken off the table because the individual states are doing what theyre doing, the GOP presidential hopeful said.

Its really not that big of an issue, he added.

Trump suggested it was actually a good thing for women that the 6-3 conservative-led court overturned a 50-year precedent guaranteeing women a constitutional right to abortion. He put three of those conservative justices onto the court when he was president.

I say, what the people decide, and whatever it is, its within the state and what the people decide, and its working out, he said. For many, many years, people have said weve got to bring this back to the states to decide, and thats now working.

Trump also called the GOP the party of fertilization, apparently trying to make the case that Republicans have fought to ensure womens access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF. But not only is that false , he lost that point completely in an indecipherable word salad.

We want to help the women because they were going to end fertilization, which is where, when the IVF, where women go to the clinics and they get help in having a baby, and thats a good thing, not a bad thing. And were for it a 100%. They tried to say that they werent for it. They actually werent for it and arent for it as much as us, but women see that, he said.