‘I’ll be voting no.’ Trump clarifies his stance on the abortion amendment in Florida

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign event in Potterville, Mich., on Thursday.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign event in Potterville, Mich., on Thursday.

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After confusion over his stance on abortion rights, former President Donald Trump is clearing things up.

“I’ll be voting no,” he told a Fox News reporter Friday when asked how he’ll vote on Florida’s abortion-related ballot measure.

Currently, abortion is not allowed in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy with few exceptions in rare instances. In the general election, voters will be asked to choose whether to protect access to abortion in the state on Amendment 4.

In that same Fox News interview, Trump repeated that he disagrees with the six week ban, but went on to use misleading talking points about access to abortion later in pregnancy to paint Democrats as extreme on the issue.

On Thursday, Trump indicated he would vote in favor of abortion rights in his home state of Florida, where it is on the ballot. Saying he thinks the “six week [ban] is too short,” he said he favored “more time.”

When asked explicitly, “so you’ll vote in favor of the amendment?”, Trump seemed to affirm that he would.

“I’m going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” he told NBC News in an interview, before saying he favored exceptions in abortion law for the life of the mother, rape and incest.

The Trump campaign quickly shot down the idea that the former president indicated how he would be voting.

“President Trump has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida, he simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short.” Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary said.

He does remain in support of other reproductive rights, reiterating several times if he’s elected again, his administration would fund the fertility procedure known as IVF.

“I was always for IVF. Right from the beginning, as soon as we heard about it,” the Republican nominee said in an interview with NBC News on Thursday.

 

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