In an exclusive interview with Fox News on Friday, former President Trump called Florida's proposed amendment to allow free access to abortion for nine months “radical.”
Amendment 4, on the Florida ballot, would end Florida's six-week ban on abortion by enshrining abortion in the state constitution.
“No law may prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict an abortion before viability or when a patient's health care provider determines that it is necessary to protect the patient's health,” the ballot proposition reads.
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“We need more than six weeks. I've been against this since the beginning of the primaries. I was against this when I heard about it. At the same time, Democrats are extreme because nine months is a ridiculous situation,” Trump said.
“That would allow abortions in the ninth month of pregnancy, and in some states, like Minnesota, you could actually execute babies after they're born, and that's unacceptable, and that's why I'm voting no,” the former president said.
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at First Summit Arena at the Cambria County War Memorial in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on August 30, 2024. Trump rallied supporters in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania by promising to slash energy bills in half, launch the largest deportation campaign in history and impose a 200% tariff on foreign-made cars. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law in Florida in 2023, making abortions illegal after six weeks of pregnancy.
“… Providing an abortion in the ninth month is unacceptable to anybody. And I think we have to do something about that. There are in-between periods, but six months is too short. It's too short. And nine months is unacceptable,” Trump said today ahead of a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
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Trump has caused some confusion over his position on the amendment, as his pro-life stance was less than categorical during the campaign.
“I'll say this: We have to win the election,” Trump said at a Fox News rally earlier this year. “Or we're going to go back to the way things were before. And we have to make sure that never happens again. We have to win the election.”
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at First Summit Arena at the Cambria County War Memorial, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
The former president also credits the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“Today's decision is the greatest victory of my life in a generation, and along with other recently announced decisions, it's only possible because I've done everything I promised to do, including nominating and confirming three highly respected and powerful constitutional scholars to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Trump said in 2022.
Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at First Summit Arena at the Cambria County War Memorial, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
Trump previously called himself “the most pro-life president in American history” at the 2023 Faith and Freedom Union Gala.
Amendment 4 has been proposed by a Sarasota, Fla.-based group called Floridians Defending Freedom. According to the Florida Department of Elections, the amendment has garnered 997,035 signatures, more than the 8 percent of registered voters statewide needed to appear on the ballot.
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