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.
So, will pro-life switch to Kamala or sit it out in 2024?
Somebody on FR yesterday suggested that Trump was appointed America’s high Priest by God.
Then Trump says this.
I fear for our country.
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.
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
If the women would vote with the men, then the abortion democrats would wither away.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Melania needs to have a talk with him about this.
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?
Why are all these referendums unchoices anti-worded so complicatedly? :)
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.
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.
Nope. Not going to win him any brownie points with the pro- abortion crowd. They hate his guts no matter what.
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