Posted on 08/29/2024 4:44:15 PM PDT by Kevin C
Former President Donald Trump says he’ll vote in favor of Florida’s abortion referendum that will appear on the ballot throughout the state for the Nov. 5 election.
NBC News reporter Dasha Burns on her X feed highlighted video of Trump telling her that he would vote to support the ballot initiative. He said, according to Burns, that he thinks Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks is too restrictive.
“I think the six-week is too short, there has to be more time,” Trump said.
Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect in May. The statewide referendum, called Amendment 4, would alter the state’s constitution to protect abortion until viability, in effect negating the six-week limitation on abortions that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed.
Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has previously said he thought the abortion issue should be decided by states and supported the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 vote in 2022 to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America.
Trump had been noncommittal on abortion bans earlier this month.
“Uh, I’m going to announce that. I’m going to actually have a press conference on that at some point in the near future, so I don’t want to tell you now,” Trump said at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. “I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. I don’t think it’s a big factor anymore really.”
In the NBC interview Thursday, Trump went further beyond just the abortion issue to say he’d support access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and announced he supports government funding of the procedure for couples trying to conceive and he acknowledged insurance companies should cover the cost.
“We are going to be, under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment,” Trump said in the NBC interview. “We’re going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.”
The Republican nominee has been a critic of far-right attempts to limit access to IVF since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year the embryos considered for IVF procedures have actual personhood status and have protections as such under the law.
What would Morgana think?
We knew Trump was a social libertarian back in 2015-2016.
That’s why he chose Pence to shore up conservative voters.
Disappointing. Guess I’ll have to vote for the one that supports infanticide. (Sarc)
he’s one vote, Florida will decide what it wants, get elected
I support Trump but dear God, talk about an unforced error. Nothing had to be said. The pro death crowd is not gonna vote for you dude.
I am voting no and voting for Trump!
Sarcasm aside, Trump is trying to win an election in a country where a majority of the voters support legal access to abortion.
We don't have to like it but that's the reality of the situation. Our choices are between voting for pro-abortion Trump or voting for pro-abortion and full blown communist Kamala Harris.
> Disappointing. <
Yes. Trump’s statement might be help him politically. And I can’t see how it would hurt him much.
But I would have preferred he said something like, “This is a state issue. And I’m not running for governor of Florida. So my Florida vote is private.”
Most of us here on FR follow the belief abortion is abhorrent, you’re removing your offspring from this planet.
Realistically, humans have been aborting their offspring long before any of us living people have been alive, regardless of the legal laws. My great-great-grandmother died from a botched abortion after a trip to Canada.
Are our major concerns adding more federal laws or removing them right now?
This kind of crap loses pro-life voters. Gains zero, zip, nadda “on the fence” pro choice voters.
Trump is right. As long as he is speaking in his capacity as a “citizen of Florida”.
Maybe in Utah.
It doesn’t matter. Day after or on implantation as many bc pills do or after birth.
It’s killing a person.
Makes no difference
Trump ensured roe v wade was taken out of the constitution
Now hell breaks loose. Half the people in this country demand abortion rights. Trump can’t fix that in this election cycle. The other side pushes him on this.
He will not force me to spend taxpayer dollars on abortion
So you support candidates who stick their finger in the air to see which direction the wind is blowing?
DJT is either pandering to the Demon party or is actually not pro life at all.
I’m beginning to wonder if Trump has any core values at all.
Where else is he willing to sell out his core supporters?
Trump is Biden!
Or Bush.
Come, Lord Jesus.
that looks like it was almost 6 months ago- wonder if it changed at all
Maybe in 2016 and earlier this would have been bad for Trump, but I think most pro-life people know the country is at stake now and will overlook this.
I agree. It’s a no win issue. Saying nothing would be best.
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