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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump on Friday mentioned he’ll vote no on a Florida poll measure that may repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban, a day after he appeared to point he would vote in favor of the measure.
Trump has mentioned he thinks Florida’s ban is a mistake and mentioned in an interview with Fox News Channel on Friday, “I believe six weeks, you want extra time.” But then he mentioned, “on the identical time, the Democrats are radical,” and he repeated false claims he has ceaselessly made about late-term abortions and mentioned that he opposed permitting abortions up till 9 months.
“So I’ll be voting no for that purpose,” mentioned Trump, who’s registered to vote at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
The Florida poll measure would legalize abortion till fetal viability, a time period utilized by well being care suppliers to explain whether or not a being pregnant is predicted to proceed creating usually or whether or not a fetus would possibly survive outdoors the uterus. It’s typically thought of to be round 23 or 24 weeks, which is about six months.
Trump drew backlash from abortion opponents who help him when he appeared to sign in one other interview on Thursday that he would vote in favor of the poll measure and repeal the six week ban when he mentioned, “I’m going to be voting that we’d like greater than six weeks.”
Amid the blowback his marketing campaign shortly issued a press release saying that Trump had not really mentioned how he would vote however “merely reiterated that he believes six weeks is just too brief.”
Trump has held a number of conflicting positions on abortion through the years. After briefly contemplating backing a possible 15-week ban on the process nationwide, he introduced in April that regulating abortion must be left to the states.
In the months since, he has repeatedly taken credit score for his function in overturning Roe and known as it “an exquisite factor to observe” as states set their very own restrictions.
“Donald Trump simply made his place on abortion very clear: He will vote to uphold an abortion ban so excessive it applies earlier than many ladies even know they’re pregnant,” Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival, mentioned in a press release responding to Trump’s Friday feedback.
