Trump Says He Will Vote To Uphold Florida’s 6-Week Abortion Ban

President Trump has just promised to vote AGAINST Florida’s upcoming measure to repeal their strict abortion bans.

Right now, in Florida, abortions are banned after 6 weeks, the time when a heartbeat can be detected.

However, a new measure would expand this time period to allow for abortions until “fetal viability” — typically, around 6 months.

Trump’s pledge to vote against the measure was not without controversy and backlash, from both sides of the aisle.

On Thursday, Trump told NBC that he thinks “we need more than six weeks” on abortion, which the MSM seized on to attack him over.

However, Trump clarified on Friday that he will be voting against the Florida measure to expand this period out until the 6 month mark.

Take a look:

🚨BREAKING: President Trump says he is voting NO on Florida's Amendment 4, which would legalize abortion through the 9th month:

"All of that stuff is unacceptable so I will be voting no for that reason." pic.twitter.com/a8vf6QNjqV

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2024

BREAKING

After receiving significant pushback from some of his supporters for this response on abortion in an NBC interview, former President Trump tells Fox News he will be voting NO on Florida’s Amendment 4. pic.twitter.com/LF923Cmqqh

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 30, 2024

From AP:

Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he will vote no on a Florida ballot measure that would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban, a day after he seemed to indicate he would vote in favor of the measure.

Trump has said he thinks Florida’s ban is a mistake and said in an interview with Fox News Channel on Friday, “I think six weeks, you need more time.” But then he said, “at the same time, the Democrats are radical,” and he repeated false claims he has frequently made about late-term abortions and said that he opposed allowing abortions up until nine months.

“So I’ll be voting no for that reason,” said Trump, who is registered to vote at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The Florida ballot measure would legalize abortion until fetal viability, a term used by health care providers to describe whether a pregnancy is expected to continue developing normally or whether a fetus might survive outside the uterus. It’s generally considered to be around 23 or 24 weeks, which is about six months.

Trump drew backlash from abortion opponents who support him when he seemed to signal in another interview on Thursday that he would vote in favor of the ballot measure and repeal the six week ban when he said, “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”

Amid the blowback his campaign quickly issued a statement saying that Trump had not actually said how he would vote but “simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short.”