Trump says he will vote to keep Florida’s six-week abortion ban — 24 hours after calling it ‘too short’

Less than 24 hours aftersaying he disagrees with Florida’s near-total ban on abortion care, Donald Trump now says he will cast a vote to keep it in place.

On Thursday, the former president told NBC News that the state’s recently-enacted ban on abortions at six weeks of pregnancy is “too short” and 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.”

The amendment would effectively overturn the six-week ban that Trump said he opposes.

However, the Republican presidential candidate told Fox News on Friday that he plans to vote against it.

“So I think six weeks, you need more time. Six weeks, I disagreed with that from the early primaries, when I heard about it,” he said.

“At the same time, the Democrats are radical, because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation where you can do an abortion in the nine months,” added Trump, who then repeated his false claim that states allow doctors to “execute a baby after birth.”

He said he would vote against the measure for that reason.

Trump’s description of Florida’s amendment – the “Right to Abortion Initiative” — is also wrong.

If passed, the amendment would prevent the state from passing any law that bans abortion care at any point in a pregnancy, before a fetus is viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks. The state would also be prohibited from enacting any law that criminalizes emergency abortion care at any point during a pregnancy.

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