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.
Darn. On again, off again. Would that the GOP and Trump‐Vance would start talking about the prolife position as more than just against abortion. Rather,
, let the abortion issue be seen as best being solved ultimately only with the establishment of a whole culture of life. That culture would begin by listening to the women about what they need In order to avoid an abortion. Helping to addess every problem that a woman encouters, which drives her to tbort needsto be addressed with women’s input.. Every woman and unborn deserve such support. Why not?
Ok, I’m not happy about this.
“you’re removing your offspring from this planet”
I especially agree with this statement.
To me it doesn’t make any sense; it’s like receiving the Darwin Award.
That being said we are trapped in a bit of a quandary.
If Republicans, Trump supports, patriots, non-communists are to succeed we should know that hard abortion bans will cause us to lose this election and then we’ll have more abortions than ever before. And we will be paying for them.
They Hyde Amendment that prohibits Federal funding of abortion will be overturned.
So I do have to say it’s good, and constitutional, the issue has been returned to the states as it is nowhere in the Constitution.
We should be happy for the victory and think strategically to live to fight another day. If not all is lost.
True, but there is no justification for the policy of appeasement. And catering to Democrat women as they would support Trump makes the GOP look weak.
Views on abortion by religious affiliation, 2024 About three-quarters of White evangelical Protestants (73%) think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. By contrast, 86% of religiously unaffiliated Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as do 71% of Black Protestants, 64% of White nonevangelical Protestants and 59% of Catholics. - https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/
Well, that is wishy washy.
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. ..
Not very libertarian of him.
Hopefully Trump is just pandering with this.
It isn’t libertarian to force insurance companies to support in vitro fertilization or require the government to pay for it.
We’re buying votes here.
Two parties can play this game.
Everyone in the world knows we aren’t paying back a 35-37 trillion dollar debt.
But at least it might get more bodies on our side when the whole thing collapses.
Agreed.
So just as with every other Republican presidential candidate since Reagan (excluding Trump 2016) we are being told to hold our nose and ignore our positions and morals in order to keep the other side from making things much worse instead of slightly so.
The irony is that Trump doesn't realize the only way he can get the Suburban Women's vote is by being the Democrat's candidate.
Let me introduce you to my children.
....
We love you, daddy.
And I love you too.
With children like that I simply can’t think abortion is a good thing. I’m thankful for the love of life, wisdom and child-raising abilities of their mothers.
I frown upon abortion, but as President I would have no power to put an end to it. In my previous term, I was able to do all I could, which ended the nonsense that the US Constitution could give one person a right to snuff out the life of another person on a whim.
Abortion is no longer a presidential issue. Other things are at issue in this election....
You’re just plain wrong. What sense does it make to vote against the guy who gave us the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and empower the people that want to enshrine infanticide in the constitution? Just because he thinks a six week ban is too restrictive? That is the hill to die on? It’s not rational.
Trump has never been a social conservative since I have known him for over 3 decades via our common interest in golf resorts. That was the reason he picked Pence in 2016, to shore up support from social conservatives.
I see no flip plop at all. Trump has turned more pro-life since his younger years. But he never was for banning all abortions by federal law.
The male vote always goes right, it is the female vote that elects the left.
“In every presidential election since 1980, a gender gap has been apparent, with a greater proportion of women than men preferring the Democrat in each case. The magnitude of the gender gap has ranged in size from four to twelve points since 1980. The “women’s vote” is the percentage point advantage that one candidate has over the other among women voters- that is, the difference in support for the major party candidates among women voters only.
In every presidential election since 1996, a majority of women have preferred the Democratic candidate. Moreover, women and men have favored different candidates in presidential elections since 2000, with the exception of 2008 when men were almost equally divided in their preferences for Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. In 2020, a majority of women favored the Democratic victor, Joe Biden, while a majority of men voted for the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.”
You have every right to disagree on some issues with Trump. Ronald Reagan famously said if you agree with someone on 80% of issues, he/she is your friend.
As for myself, I follow Reagan’s philosophy. I never use litmus paper to determine my support.
Sorry stanne, it is suburban women. And politicians know that best. So does the electorate.
Politicians only target women when it comes to abortion because that’s a make-or-break issue for them. They never, ever mention men becauase it’s a losing issue with men.
Women in congress state over and over this is a woman’s issue and men are not qualified to weigh in men have no say.
During abortion rallies it is overwhelmingly female. In fact you’d be hard pressed to find a male.
The public schools are loaded with rabidly pro abortion teachers, and God help any man or woman to speak against abortion.
By the way, plenty of men do push pro life causes all over the country and abhor killing babies. It never makes it past local news but it’s there.
Nice try but no sale.
“ The male vote always goes right, it is the female vote that elects the left.”
Ok but that was not the premise of the debate
Suburban women will determine winner again in 2024. Trump is trying to bring them into the fold. I can’t blame him.
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