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.
“ If you want to get in good with the ladies, you must be willing to kill the babies.”
Are you suggesting that males are not pro abortion? Because if so please do name a few activists. Their silence on the matter speaks volumes to me
You're correct.
When it came down to appointing Supreme Court justices who would rid us of Roe v Wade after 50 years, Trump failed us horribly.
Oh, wait...
Sometimes, Trump is a political idiot. If he had savvy, this race would be a rout.
This race is a rout.
Not sure he was wise to take a position when he could just keep his mouth shut on the issue but from a purely political perspective I agree that he had no choice but make this statement.
Everyone in the media is putting words in Trumps mouth, claiming Trump is going to sign a national ban on abortion - as if this has snowball s chance of passing in congress. The medias and the Democrats goal is to gin up antiTrump hatred with the fanatical abortion zealots and mobilize them for Democrat get out the vote duty
This statement by Trump pretty much deflates the anti abortion bubble wedge issue the anti Trumpers are trying to tar and feather him with
Suburban white women are the only ones who want abortion? No.
Trump said nothing about killing babies. He is only wantd15 weeks limit to kill banies extended to win some voted from suburban white women.
Suburbs are overwhelmingly white.
Women are the only people who want abortion? Thats silly.
He can simply say that it’s a state’s rights issue and leave it there. He doesn’t have to say publicly that he wants to vote for a no holds barred pro-abortion memorandum.
He can simply say that it’s a state’s rights issue and leave it there. He doesn’t have to say publicly that he wants to vote for a no holds barred pro-abortion memorandum.
Same here.
no he didn’t
I’m suggesting exactly what I wrote.
Yeah, OK.
Ping.
Read that post about priority issues some one posted. Abortions are #1 priority in a poll of suburban women.
In other words he is just a run of the mill GOP politician moving to the left and abandoning his base after the primaries.
Six weeks to short, doesn't he know the voters he trying to court won't vote for him if he showed up with a vacuum cleaner and sucked the baby out himself ?
This is how bad it’s gotten: suburban women consider ABORTION to be the number one issue, not escalating food costs, not the possibility we’ll be wreathed in mushroom clouds, not Antifa/BLM or the possibility of death camps opening, but ABORTION!!!
I seriously do NOT want to know these people (except maybe your wife, if I ever meet you), but I probably know some of them already (sigh).
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