Former US President and Republican candidate for the White House Donald Trump said on Friday that he will vote “no” to any possible amendment to the abortion ban in the state of Florida, since otherwise it could become a right at the state level and the current ban on abortion at six weeks would be revoked.
This was stated by the former president in statements to Fox News, defending that the amendment is “too permissive” and that “the Democrats are radicals.” “That is why I will vote no,” he added.
However, the Republican has stressed that “he will not have to think about it” at the national level, because state regulation “is working very well at the moment.” “The states are doing it. It is a matter for the states,” he stressed when asked about the veto of a federal ban.
The debate over this amendment has become one of the main focuses of debate in the electoral race and one of the main points of confrontation with the opposition now led by Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who has criticized Trump for these statements.
“Donald Trump has just made his position on abortion very clear: he will vote to maintain an abortion ban so extreme that it is applied even before many women know they are pregnant,” Harris denounced, criticizing that her adversary “proudly boasts of the role he played in the annulment of the Roe vs. Wade case, demanding punishment for women who undergo an abortion.”
“So, of course he thinks it is a ‘beautiful’ thing that women in Florida and across the country are turned away from emergency rooms, face life-threatening situations and are forced to travel hundreds of miles to receive the care they need,” the Democratic Party candidate added in a statement reported by CNN.
A vote against the amendment would pave the way for a ban signed in April last year by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who proposed not only banning abortion in his state from the sixth week of pregnancy, but also classifying as a third-degree crime the assistance that any medical professional can give to bypass this ban.
Before reaching the Republican majority in its Congress, Florida was considered a destination for many women from neighboring states with even stricter bans, CNN recalled at the time, due to its comparatively advanced legislation on the matter.
Florida is one of the leading Republican states in the growing conservative push to repeal the right to abortion in the country, which began when the Supreme Court revoked in June 2022 the legal precedent that allowed the termination of pregnancy since 1973.
