Trump Eats Words, Says He’ll Vote to Preserve Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban

After months of Donald Trump attempting to repaint himself as a moderate on abortion — despite the former president bragging that he killed Roe v. Wade — he has finally bent the knee to anti-abortion leaders. On Friday, Trump declared that he would vote against a ballot measure in Florida that would restore access to abortion.

The news arrived just a day after he told NBC News that the state’s current six-week ban is “too short” and that “there has to be more time.” He added at the time that he was “going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”

However, his remarks on Thursday garnered severe backlash from his coveted voters and Christian conservatives who are key to his grip over the GOP. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser released a response and said that voting for the Florida measure “completely undermines” Trump’s previous opposition to abortions after five months of pregnancy.

With just two months to go in the 2024 presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump stumbled backwards as he tried once again to find the winning answer to appease his allies.

When speaking to a Fox reporter on Friday, Trump said he disagreed with the six-week ban but would vote to preserve it. “I think six weeks — you need more time than six weeks. I’ve disagreed with that right from the early primaries when I heard about it. I disagreed with it,” Trump told the outlet. “At the same time, the Democrats are radical, because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation where you can do an abortion in the ninth month. … So I’ll be voting no for that reason.”

By now, it’s a surprise that Trump hasn’t broken his back from the amount of waffling he’s done to capture votes from both moderate-leaning voters and independents who want abortion to be mostly legal, and anti-abortion crusaders.

Harris denounced Trump after his pledge to vote against the ballot measure that would enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in Florida. “Donald Trump just made his position on abortion very clear: He will vote to uphold an abortion ban so extreme it applies before many women even know they are pregnant,” the vice president said in a statement. Harris referenced the right’s terrifying agenda for America, Project 2025, which would severely limit access to abortion and restrict reproductive health care nationwide. Although Trump has attempted to distance himself from the unpopular plan, CNN found that 140 people who worked in the Trump administration were involved in the 887-page playbook.

On Friday, Harris also took the opportunity to reiterate her promise to sign legislation protecting abortion access nationwide: “I trust women to make their own health care decisions and believe the government should never come between a woman and her doctor.”

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