{"id":1948920,"date":"2023-06-16T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-trumps-going-soft-on-abortion-after-harsh-comments-on-heartbeat-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:14:41","slug":"desantis-says-trumps-going-soft-on-abortion-after-harsh-comments-on-heartbeat-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-trumps-going-soft-on-abortion-after-harsh-comments-on-heartbeat-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis criticizes Trump for being lenient on abortion after his strong remarks on Heartbeat Bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-says-trumps-going-soft-on-abortion-after-harsh-comments-on-heartbeat-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948920&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Florida Governor Accuses Trump of Going &#8220;Soft&#8221; on Abortion<\/h2>\n<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis has accused his 2024 presidential rival Donald Trump of going \u201csoft\u201d on the issue of abortion after the former president said last month that some believed it was \u201ctoo harsh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican governor made the comments during an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network News\u2019 David Brody set to air on the 700 Club on June 16.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by host Brody if he feels Trump is \u201cgoing soft on abortion a little bit,\u201d DeSantis responded, \u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really surprised, because he\u2019s a Florida resident,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd I thought he would compliment the fact that we were able to do the heartbeat bill, which pro-lifers have wanted for a long time. He never complimented, never said anything about it. Then he was asked about it and he said it was \u2018harsh.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are children with detectable heartbeats,\u201d DeSantis added.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis signed the six-week ban on abortion, or the Heartbeat Protection Act, into law in April, although whether or not it will take effect depends on how the state supreme court rules in a challenge to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-life-movement-makes-gains-amid-shifting-abortion-landscape\/\" title=\"Pro-life movement gains ground in changing abortion scene.\">current 15-week ban<\/a> in place, which the governor signed into law in 2022.<\/p>\n<h2>Heartbeat Bill Explained<\/h2>\n<p>In those cases, a written determination must be made by two physicians certifying, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberals-are-wrong-emergency-pregnancy-treatments-remain-legal-after-roe\/\" title=\"Liberals Are Wrong. Emergency Pregnancy Treatments Remain Legal After Roe.\">reasonable medical judgment<\/a>, that the termination of the pregnancy is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Women are also exempted from the ban if their pregnancy is not yet in the third trimester and the unborn child has a \u201cfatal fetal abnormality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such an abnormality must be certified in writing by two physicians.<\/p>\n<p>Other exceptions are included for pregnancies caused by rape, incest, or human trafficking, so long as the woman is less than 15 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time the woman schedules or arrives for her appointment to obtain the abortion, she must provide a copy of a restraining order, police report, medical record, or other court order or documentation providing evidence that she is obtaining the termination of pregnancy because she is a victim of rape, incest, or human trafficking,\u201d the bill states.<\/p>\n<p>It will also make it a third-degree felony for any person who \u201cwillfully performs, or actively participates\u201d in, a termination of pregnancy in violation of the legislation and prohibits state funds from being used to help a woman get an abortion in another state.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after DeSantis signed the bill, Trump said in a May interview with The Messenger that he believed many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-trumps-going-soft-on-abortion-after-harsh-comments-on-heartbeat-bill\/\" title=\"DeSantis criticizes Trump for being lenient on abortion after his strong remarks on Heartbeat Bill.\">pro-life activists found<\/a> the six-week ban on abortion \u201ctoo harsh.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Harsh\u2019 Abortion Bill<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cHe has to do what he has to do,\u201d Trump said of Florida\u2019s abortion restrictions. \u201cIf you look at what DeSantis did, a lot of people don\u2019t even know if he knew what he was doing. But he signed six weeks, and many people within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-blasts-ron-desantis-hes-got-no-personality\/\" title=\"Donald Trump blasts Ron DeSantis: 'He's got no personality'\">pro-life movement feel<\/a> that that was too harsh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president did not explicitly state whether he himself believed the six-week ban to be too harsh. Asked if he would sign a six-week abortion ban, Trump explained that he was \u201clooking at all options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussing Trump\u2019s comments about abortion further with Christian Broadcasting Network News, DeSantis explained, \u201cWhile I appreciate what the former president has<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis claims Donald Trump has become lenient on abortion, criticizing his recent statement that some view as &#8220;too harsh.&#8221; DeSantis expressed his views in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network News&#8217; David Brody, scheduled to be broadcasted on the 700 Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1948921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[22064,4310,3895,3763,4980,15384,5112,5529,3634],"class_list":["post-1948920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-heartbeat","tag-abortion","tag-bill","tag-criticizes","tag-desantis","tag-lenient","tag-remarks","tag-strong","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}