Former US President and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, corrected this Friday and assured that he would vote against an amendment that would enshrine in Florida the right to abortion in the state constitution and would repeal the current ban on elective termination of pregnancy at six weeks.
The tycoon gives a 180 degree turn after leaving the script on Thursday and suggesting in an interview with NBCNews that I would vote in favour of the amendment.
“I think six weeks… it takes more than six weeks,” Trump said in remarks to Fox News adding that he also thought the proposed amendment was too permissive. “That’s why I will vote no,” the tycoon stressed, also indicating that the issue should be decided by individual states.
Florida amendment faces strong opposition from anti-abortion groups who supported his campaign in the Nov. 5 election against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
The New York tycoon, who lives in Florida, is called to the polls on November 5, coinciding with the presidential elections, to vote in a referendum to eliminate the six-week veto imposed by his party colleagues.
Currently, Florida bans most abortions after six weeks pregnancy, a change that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in 2023.
The American vice president and democratic candidate, Kamala Harriscriticized his rival at the polls for these latest statements. “Trump has just made his position on abortion very clear: he will vote to maintain a ban so extreme that it applies before many women even know they are pregnant,” he said in a written statement released by his campaign.
“When I am president and Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, I will proudly sign it. The choice in this election is clear,” she said in a statement.
Abortion, a key issue
He abortion has become a key issue Before the election, abortion rights contributions increased in the two years after the Supreme Court overturned the case. Roe v. Wade.
THE IVF fertility treatments They have also gained prominence ahead of the November presidential election, since an Alabama court ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos are people. The state’s governor then signed a law to protect the treatment.
Trump, who Democrats have described as a threat to women’s rightssaid Thursday that if elected, he would require the government or insurance companies to fund IVF fertility treatments.
However, Minnesota Governor and Harris’ number two, Tim Walz, On Friday, he dismissed the offer as unbelievable.
Walz told guests at a campaign fundraiser in Bethesda, a Washington suburb, that he and his wife, Gwen, briefly considered changing their talking points on the issue in light of Trump’s comments but changed their minds.
“Listen, women don’t trust them. They don’t trust women, so, Why the hell would women trust them? Nobody believes them“Walz cried in front of about 150 campaign contributors.
Opinion polls show that Trump has lost ground among female voters since Harris became the Democratic nominee in the Nov. 5 election. Harris led Trump 49% to 36%, or 13 percentage points, among female voters in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday, up from a 9-point lead in polls conducted in July.
