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.
Donald Trump has never been pro-life.
Trump made a deal with social conservatives in 2016. "Vote for me and I will put judges on the Supreme Court who will repeal Roe v. Wade."
They did and he did. He owes them nothing more.
I doubt it has changed much at all, other than to switch more in support of abortion as suburban women's #1 concern now that inflation has eased slightly.
I know what God thinks and he won’t be pleased.
They still won’t vote for him.
He supports legalized abortion (child killing) and wants to lose the election. Shaking my head.
That's the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats are allowed to flat out lie on the campaign trail about their far-left positions. Their far-left base doesn't mind because they know they're lying to get elected and once firmly entrenched in power, they'll have the freedom to show their true colors.
Republicans, on the other hand, demand their leaders bend the knee to their base and make solemn promises in support of massively unpopular positions and they don't care if they lose their elections as long as they kissed the ring.
He favors abortion now. It’s clear. For perceived political advantage. The pro-life stance was also for perceived political advantage.
I don't think Trump cares one way or the other about abortion.
Oh Joy!
Our candidate is a scared, flip flopping populist.
Nothing is sacred to him but winning.
Hide your guns.
I wonder if Jesus would agree with you. We are on this earth for a short time, but eternity is forever.
If you knew politics you would know that disheartened voters drop out, they don’t generally just switch to the other side.
The issue is turn-out and the level of donations and activism, and winning down ticket offices, it is similar to the military recruiting situation, the patriotic supporters became disenchanted and just stopped showing up to enlist.
This is not something to take lightly.
Nah. This isn't 2016.
Our nation is at stake. So we're all behind Trump.
“This isn’t 2016.”
Agreed. This is 2020.
Where the scared populist goes nuts, stabs us in the back regarding the SwampJab. For votes. Then loses anyway.
While I don't trust Trump as far as I can throw him when it comes to defending the Second Amendment, I don't think he'd be this stupid.
Coming out for an AWB would 100% cost him the election. Gun rights crowd are single-issue voters. They WILL stay home! I know I would.
This being said, I do not expect loyalty on the issue should he find himself back in the White House. I can truly see a scenario where he'd pass an AWB to make a deal with Democrats on other issues. Keep in mind, he'll be a lame duck and he's never really liked the gun rights crowd that much to begin with other than their willingness to give him their votes.
I've said as much before. Socially, he's an old 90s-era NYC liberal.
I wish more people grasped just what the amendment would make legal regarding abortion in Florida.
“Trump is an idiot”
He is not dumb.
He is disloyal.
At least Trump threw a bone to pro-lifers in ensuring Roe V. Wade was repealed, the one thing they've been begging for over the past fifty years.
What thanks did Second Amendment advocates get? A bumpstock ban.
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