Floridians Know Donald Trump Is To Blame for Extreme and Dangerous Six-Week Abortion Ban

Today, Donald Trump said that he would vote “no” on Florida’s constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution. Trump has repeatedly refused to answer whether he supports it, but now, he’s finally admitting where he stands.

As Donald Trump continues to try to sidestep and deny his role in enabling Florida’s draconian and dangerous six-week abortion ban, Floridians know that this was only made possible because of his presidency. 

A reminder: Trump once boasted: “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone … Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing.” 

As Florida voters mobilize to enshrine abortion rights and overturn the state’s extreme Trump-enabled abortion ban this November, DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy issued the following Statement: 

“Donald Trump is ‘proud’ of his role in overturning Roe v. Wade. As a result, millions of women across Florida are suffering under an unpopular, dangerous, extreme abortion ban. Whether it’s abortion access, IVF, or contraception, Donald Trump opened the floodgates to attacks on women’s reproductive freedoms – and he’s not stopping there. If Trump reaches the White House, his Project 2025 agenda will ban abortion nationwide and threaten IVF access. As Floridians mobilize to fight for their rights, they head to the polls knowing that the only candidates at the top of the ticket fighting for their reproductive freedoms are Vice President Harris and Governor Walz.” 

Thanks to Donald Trump, women in Florida live in constant fear about their ability to access the care they need.

The Guardian: “This is life and death’: inside a Florida clinic after the six-week abortion ban” 

“State’s fall as the last bastion of access to the procedure in the deep south means women will have to travel farther for care”

“The impact of the ban will ripple across the US. Women who are past six weeks – about 60% of Florida abortions take place after that point in pregnancy – will have to travel at least several states away for abortions, further burdening the relatively few abortion clinics that have survived Roe’s fall… 

“One woman, pregnant from her husband’s repeated sexual assaults, cried on the phone on Wednesday as a staffer told her that she likely couldn’t get an abortion in Florida. The woman, who lived in a state with a near-total abortion ban, was confused by Florida’s ban and overwhelmed by the difficulty of having to travel even farther than she had imagined…

“One patient at Bread and Roses on Tuesday, who asked to be identified by her initial A, was little more than five weeks into her pregnancy. A new mom with a months-old baby at home, A had always opposed abortion, but she had developed heart failure during her last pregnancy. Then she had a seizure about a week after giving birth.

“‘After my condition after my last pregnancy, I realized it’s something people should have a right to if need be,’ A said of abortion. ‘I feel like women should have rights to their bodies. I think it’s cruel, honestly, for people with health conditions, like myself.’”

Washington Post: “When she walked into the abortion clinic Tuesday morning, Kristen thought she’d made it just in time.

“The 22-year-old mother of two had learned just a few hours earlier that a new six-week abortion ban would go into effect in Florida on Wednesday. So she canceled all her plans and found someone to drive her, in hopes of ending her pregnancy before the deadline.

“She was one day too late.

“‘We did an ultrasound and you’re over the state limit,’ said Eileen Diamond, the director of Benjamin Surgical Services International, gently explaining to Kristen that the test showed she was eight weeks pregnant.

“While the clinic could still provide abortions for women more than six weeks into their pregnancies until midnight, Diamond said, another Florida law requires all abortion patients to have an ultrasound at least 24 hours before their procedure. That meant the earliest Kristen could get an abortion was Wednesday, when her abortion would no longer be legal.

“‘Oh no,’ Kristen said, tears rolling down her cheeks as she sat across a desk from Diamond in a consultation room. ‘No. No.’”

Trump wants to ban abortion nationwide; just look at his record. 

Trump: “There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it’s very important.” 

Trump on if he would sign a six-week national abortion ban: “I’m looking at all [options].”

Trump: “We’ll pick something that’s going to be very, very good for pro-life … I’m going to be in there pushing.”

Trump: “There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have abortions].”

The Hill: “The Trump administration formally backed a House bill Monday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks… It would make it a crime to perform or attempt an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with the possibility of a fine, up to five years in prison or both.”

Trump paved the way for GOP threats to IVF access, and his extreme anti-choice allies are pushing to gut IVF access. 

CNN: “How the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”

HuffPost: “Donald Trump Has Deep Ties To Anti-IVF Movement”

“Like many Republicans, Trump’s words of support don’t align with his past actions on IVF. The current Republican presidential nominee ― who has repeatedly bragged about his role in repealing federal abortion protections ― has deep ties to extreme right-wing organizations that actively oppose IVF.

“While in the White House, Trump and his administration praised, appointed and worked with some of the nation’s most extreme thought leaders who believe the IVF process is akin to murder. Trump hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the IVF ruling twice: once during his 2016 campaign and in 2018 at the White House. (This is the same chief justice who recently appeared on a QAnon conspiracist’s show.)”

Politico: “Anti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They’re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization.

“Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them should be curtailed.”

Axios: “[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”

Donald Trump is demanding credit for enabling extreme abortion bans across the country and said he is “proud” of his work to overturn Roe v. Wade. 

Trump: “For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it. … Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.”

HuffPost: “Donald Trump Says He’s ‘Proud’ To Have Overturned Roe v. Wade”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Says He’s ‘Proud’ to Have ‘Terminated’ Abortion Rights”

Business Insider: “Trump boasts he’s ‘proud’ about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, the issue that has become ballot-box poison for Republicans”