Sen. Chuck Schumer on Tuesday slammed former President Donald Trump for his new position on abortion as Republicans continued to squabble over the lightning rod issue.

The Senate majority leader called out Trump for his hard-to-pin-down stance on reproductive rights and suggested Democrats would continue to lean hard on the issue to win at the ballot box in November.

“Should former President Trump return to office, he will continue to support a federal abortion ban and continue to erode women’s rights,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.

“After all, this is the Donald Trump who said: Women who seek reproductive care should be punished,” he added.

Schumer mocked Trump for flip-flopping on the issue over the years and even the past few months when he mused about backing a 15-week national ban.

“Let’s wait a few weeks and see what his new position will be,” Schumer said.

A day after Trump put out a video suggesting abortion restrictions should be left to the states, Republicans continued to snipe over whether that stance makes moral or political sense.

Sen. Lindsey Graham reiterated his support for a 15-week national abortion ban, a position Trump declined to endorse for now.

“The state’s rights approach, to me, you sort of abandon your position on late term abortion (in blue states). It does bother me what happens in California and New York,” Graham told CNN Tuesday.

Trump lashed out at Graham and some prominent abortion opponents for not getting in line behind his position, which he hoped would ease the fierce political headwinds the GOP is facing going into the November elections.

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