{"id":1029227,"date":"2024-01-11T03:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029227"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:52:07","slug":"fact-ron-desantis-wants-to-take-his-extreme-anti-abortion-agenda-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/fact-ron-desantis-wants-to-take-his-extreme-anti-abortion-agenda-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT: Ron DeSantis Wants to Take His Extreme Anti-Abortion Agenda Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRon DeSantis has ripped away women\u2019s reproductive freedoms every chance he\u2019s gotten \u2014 and now he\u2019s doubling down on his extreme anti-choice platform in a desperate attempt to win over the MAGA base. After signing cruel, unpopular abortion bans in each of the last two years, DeSantis is trying to force his radical agenda on the rest of the country with a national ban that voters overwhelmingly oppose. It\u2019s a losing strategy, but DeSantis and the rest of the Republican field are still lining up behind the same dangerous and unpopular MAGA playbook on abortion rights that keeps costing their party in elections up and down the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis has promised to sign a national abortion ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cDeSantis Says He Would Sign a 15-Week Abortion Ban as President\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cIn an easily missed moment during Wednesday night\u2019s chaotic GOP presidential primary debate, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would sign a federal 15-week abortion ban.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Iowa<\/a>: \u201cOn Saturday at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition event, you said as president, you would support abortion restrictions at the state and the federal level. Would you sign the nationwide 15-week ban that the Faith and Freedom Coalition supports?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis: \u201cSo I’ve said from the beginning of this, as president, you put pro-life legislation on my desk, I’m going to look favorably and support the legislation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis<\/a>: \u201cAs president, I\u2019m going to welcome pro-life policies across the board at both [state and federal] levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tucker Carlson<\/a>: \u201cYou signed a ban on abortion after six weeks in Florida. Would you do the same as president, nationally?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis: \u201cWell, I’m very proud to say Kim Reynolds is here and she signed a great heartbeat bill today. We were able to do that in Florida. We had a lot of opposition to that. I’m proud to have been a pro-life governor and I will be a pro life-president, so of course I want to sign pro-life legislation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis<\/a>: \u201cDobbs<\/em> returned the issue to the elected representatives of the people. And so I think that there\u2019s a role for both the federal and the states.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis<\/a>: \u201cI’m a pro-life governor. I’ve signed pro-life legislation. I’ll be a pro-life president. \u2026 Of course, there’ll be executive actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis\u2019s anti-abortion extremism is extremely unpopular with voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cRecent polling finds the six-week abortion ban is not popular among Florida residents of either political party. A University of North Florida poll in March found 75% of 1,452 respondents said they either somewhat or strongly opposed the six-week ban. That included 61% of Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>: \u201cAmericans overwhelmingly oppose the next goal of many anti-abortion activists, to enact a federal law banning abortion nationwide. By 80%-14%, those surveyed opposed that idea, including 65% of Republicans and 83% of independents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cMost Americans support abortion access one year after Roe v. Wade: poll\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cA 64% majority of US adults say they disapprove of last year\u2019s Supreme Court ruling that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion, with half strongly disapproving \u2013 an assessment that\u2019s almost entirely unchanged from CNN\u2019s poll last July in the immediate wake of the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis last year signed an extreme law banning abortion in Florida before many women even know they\u2019re pregnant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cRon DeSantis quietly signs Florida’s 6-week abortion ban into law\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tampa Bay Times<\/a>: \u201cLate Thursday night, in a private ceremony in his office, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill to ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. \u2026 His office announced the signing in a highly unusual news release sent out after 11 p.m., then updated his schedule to say the ceremony happened at 10:45 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cThe bill makes it a third-degree felony for physicians or anyone who \u2018actively participate(s) in\u2019 an abortion in violation of the ban. It also prohibits state funds being used in any way to help a woman get an abortion from another state, and using \u2018telehealth\u2019 or mail to receive abortion medication.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis has also signed into law a different abortion ban \u2014 with no exceptions for rape or incest \u2014 that has created a horrifying reality for women in Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Thursday a Mississippi-style anti-abortion measure that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exemptions for rape, incest or human trafficking.<\/strong> The bill, which goes into effect July 1, does allow exemptions in cases where a pregnancy is \u2018serious risk\u2019 to the mother or a fatal fetal abnormality is detected if two physicians confirm the diagnosis in writing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orlando Weekly<\/a>: \u201cMiddle school-aged incest victim was turned away from Florida abortion clinics under 15-week ban\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTwo friends were denied care after Florida banned abortion. One almost died.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cFlorida law allows abortions after 15 weeks if two doctors confirm the diagnosis of a fatal fetal abnormality in writing, but doctors in Florida and states with similar laws have been hesitant to terminate such pregnancies for fear someone will question whether the abnormality was truly fatal. The penalties for violating the law are severe: Doctors can go to prison and face heavy fines and legal fees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in Congress, DeSantis consistently voted to ban abortion nationwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/a>: DeSantis voted for a national abortion ban that would criminalize doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013<\/a> and 2015<\/a>: DeSantis co-sponsored and voted for a national abortion ban that required rape and incest victims to report to law enforcement in order to gain an exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DNC National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika released the following statement: \u201cRon DeSantis has ripped away women\u2019s reproductive freedoms every chance he\u2019s gotten \u2014 and now he\u2019s doubling down on his extreme anti-choice platform in a desperate attempt to win over the MAGA base. 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