NBC News said Trump made the comment while speaking to reporters after landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of a campaign fundraiser.
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Arizona Supreme Court went too far in ruling that the state's 160-year-old near-total abortion ban can be enforced.
"Yeah, they did," Trump said about the court's judges when asked if they went too far. "That'll be straightened out, and as you know it's all about states' rights."
The former president predicted that Arizona's governor and others "are going to bring it back into reason."
While he said the court overstepped, Trump also reiterated his position that the issue of abortion should be left up to states.
"It's the will of the people," he said, adding that he would not sign a national abortion ban as president.
Under the law from 1864, anyone who performs the procedure or helps a woman access that care could face felony charges and up to two to five years in prison. The law includes an exception to save the woman’s life.
And when Trump was asked if doctors should be punished for performing abortions, he said, "I’ll let that be to the states.”
"You know everything we’re doing now is states and states' rights and what we wanted to do is get it back to the states because for 53 years it’s been a fight and now the states are handling it and some have handled it very well and the others will end up handling it very well."
On Monday, Trump said that abortion laws and policies should be controlled by individual states. He did not take a position, however, on the possibility of a national abortion ban that has been pushed by conservatives in Congress, including many of his allies.
“My view is, now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,” Trump said in a more than four-minute-long video posted on his Truth Social account.