(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday he would vote against an amendment in his home state of Florida that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution and overturn a current six-week abortion ban.
Trump made the comments to Fox News, a day after he caused confusion when he seemed to suggest in an interview with NBC News that he would vote in favor of the amendment.
The amendment is strongly opposed by the anti-abortion groups that have backed his campaign in the Nov. 5 election against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I think six weeks, you need more time than six weeks,” Trump said, adding that he also believed the proposed amendment was too permissive.
“So I’ll be voting no for that reason,” Trump said.
Trump, who as president appointed three of the justices who made up the Supreme Court majority that ended constitutional protection for abortion, has said the matter is now to be decided by individual states.
(Reporting by Rami Ayyub; editing by Jasper Ward)
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