Trump says Florida’s six-week abortion ban is ‘too short’ and suggests he will vote to amend it

Donald Trump opposes Florida’s law that bans abortion at roughly six weeks of pregnancy and appeared to suggest that he will vote for an abortion rights amendment to the state’s constitution this November.

Trump, who is registered to vote in Florida, told NBC News on Thursday that he wants “more weeks.”

If Florida voters approve Amendment 4 on their ballots this fall, the state’s constitution would be amended to state that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”

That amendment would effectively overturn the state’s ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy — before most people know they are pregnant.

When asked by NBC News how he plans to vote on the amendment, Trump said that “the six week is too short” and “there has to be more time.”

“I’ve told them I want more weeks,” he said. “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”

The Republican presidential nominee has failed to present a cohesive platform for reproductive healthcare, and his conflicting statements over the last 25 years have drawn criticism from both abortion rights supporters and his anti-abortion allies.

At one point in 2015, Trump had “five positions on abortion in three days,” according to The Washington Post, while Kamala Harris and his Democratic rivals have warned that another Trump administration with a Republican-controlled Congress could advance a national abortion ban.

Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade, which had affirmed a constitutional right to abortion care. The Trump-aligned Project 2025 document, that is designed to inform his