Donald Trump said on Friday he will vote against Florida’s abortion rights ballot amendment after all, as he tries to stem the backlash from anti-abortion Republicans for having suggested earlier that he might support the measure in November.
Trump said that he opposes Florida’s Amendment 4, which, if passed, will enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. His comments appear to be an attempt to manage the fallout from his interview with NBC News a day earlier, when he signaled an openness to supporting the ballot amendment.
Trump had been critical of Florida’s six-week abortion ban in his NBC News interview. When asked how he would vote on Amendment 4, he said, “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”
Those remarks led anti-abortion activists to accuse him of betraying their movement. In that same interview, he said that if re-elected, either his administration or insurance companies would cover the cost of IVF for patients — a proposition that raised questions about how such a policy could be enacted and whether he’d even have the ability as president to fulfill such a politically and administratively challenging promise.








