Donald Trump says he’ll vote ‘yes’ on Amendment 4 to overturn Florida ban on abortion after 6 weeks

Florida Politics ^ | 8/29/2025 | Drew Dixon

[Theoria]

[Antoninus]

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?

It's also not rational to stab a key contingent of your voting base in the back nine weeks before an election. But here we are.

[Bobbyvotes]

So, will pro-life switch to Kamala or sit it out in 2024?

[P-Marlowe]

Somebody on FR yesterday suggested that Trump was appointed America’s high Priest by God.

Then Trump says this.

I fear for our country.

[SamuraiScot]

Our choices are between voting for pro-abortion Trump or voting for pro-abortion and full blown communist Kamala Harris.

Maybe they should just have Congress pass an Amendment to repeal the 19th Amendment. A great many conservative women would agree that the 19th has caused way more harm than good.

[Antoninus]

Suburban women will determine winner again in 2024. Trump is trying to bring them into the fold. I can’t blame him.

How many is he going to win over with this? I'd say close to zero. Pandering to the pro-aborts by Republicans never works.

How many is he going to lose from his pro-life base for doing this? Many. Tens of thousands. Maybe a million. Included among them, many of those who expend hours of time volunteering, walking precincts, harvesting ballots -- pro-lifers are activists.

Honestly, I think he just lost the election.

[delchiante]

A voting base that’s okay with some abortion, btw...

Up to 6 weeks..

That’s not a base that got stabbed in the back. That’s a base compromising their own beliefs stabbing 5 week old life in the womb

[ansel12]

If the women would vote with the men, then the abortion democrats would wither away.

[sam_whiskey]

And he is “stabbing them in the back” how exactly? Because he is personally opposed to a six week abortion ban on Florida? That’s it?

[Bobbyvotes]

I am pro-life by actual actions. I discouraged my pregnant wife from doing amnio test even though I was age 51 and she was near age 40. It was our first baby, and I was against abortion regardless of health problems with baby.

But now we are in a national election for president, not a religious leader. Trump is doing his best to win in 2024. I will go along with extending restriction weeks for abortion. But I draw big fat red line at 4.5 months because baby can survive outside mother’s womb after that time. Can not kill a self-surviving baby without calling it murder.

[sam_whiskey]

A federal ban was never going to happen. Did the activists out there actually think that was in the cards? Now don’t support Trump and put the Democrats in power and there will definitely be federal mandates about abortion. It will be the stuff of their worst nightmares.

[lastchance]

Sorry, this is inexcusable. The amendment has the usual pro-abort sneaky language but the upshot is that passage would mean abortion would be legal up to birth. The key phrase that makes this so is “or when necessary to protect the patient’s health.”

The abortion issue does not belong in the state constitution anymore than it belonged in the U.S. Constitution. If Trump thinks the current law is too restrictive the remedy is a legislative one.

[Aria]

Melania needs to have a talk with him about this.

[Bobbyvotes]

Seriously, how many pro-lifers are going to SWITCH to die-hard abortion loving Kamala (abortion on demand all the way to 9+ months) due to what Trump said?

[P.O.E.]

Why are all these referendums unchoices anti-worded so complicatedly? :)

[Drew68]

But I don’t believe them. Because... duh.

I believe them because pro-abortion initiatives have passed by popular referendum everywhere that they've been on the ballot, including in the reddest of states.

[Drew68]

Maybe they should just have Congress pass an Amendment to repeal the 19th Amendment.

Repealing the 19th Amendment is nothing more than mental masturbation. It is never going to happen. There is no movement to even forward the issue.

Maybe instead of whining about the 19th Amendment, 18-30 year old men should put down their Xbox controllers, log out of PornHub, and actually go register to vote.

This demographic has the lowest turnout of anyone and they're Trump's strongest supporters.

[virgil]

Nope. Not going to win him any brownie points with the pro- abortion crowd. They hate his guts no matter what.

[Antoninus]

Seriously, how many pro-lifers are going to SWITCH to die-hard abortion loving Kamala...

None. That's not the point.

Tens of thousands, however, will vote third party or stay home.

Worse, the pro-life activists who would have been out knocking on doors for Trump or handing out sample ballots or harvesting ballots will sit on their hands. Because if the Republican candidate is voting for what amounts to unfettered abortion, then what's the bloody point?

[Antoninus]

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.

That's not true. The only way to get the suburban women's vote is by using your position as the nominee to frame the issue in favor of Life. Pandering to the Culture of Death position does nothing to flip a single vote. It only does damage to the enthusiasm of your base -- which is catastrophic.