Ron DeSantis Fights for Life
No leader in the country has done more to protect innocent life than Ron DeSantis.
The Facts
• DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act despite opposition from donors.
• DeSantis has defended Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act from Donald Trump’s attacks that it is “too harsh.” This legislation mirrors those also passed in the states of Iowa and South Carolina.
• DeSantis has said that he will be a pro-life president and wants to sign pro-life legislation. He told Tucker Carlson at the Family Leadership Summit:
o “I’m proud to have been a pro-life governor, and I will be a pro-life president. So I mean, of course, I want to sign pro-life legislation. I think it’s something that we need to develop a culture of life in this country. If you look over the last 50 years, we allowed practices that were barbaric, post birth abortion, abortion, when you have a fully formed baby six, seven months in, and I don’t think Rome is built in a day, I think it’s going to take time to make progress in some parts of the country. But as President, I will be somebody who will use the bully pulpit to support governors like Kim Reynolds, when she’s got a bill, other states as they advance the cause of life. It is a critical issue. And it’s one I’m happy to have done it. Oh, by the way, this is an issue where I had a lot of supporters who were averse to me on this. Donors saying they didn’t want to support me. If I stood for life, it’s been written about how I lost a lot of really big supporters. Some of them just aren’t pro-life. Some of them think it’s a political liability. And at the end of the day, you get into office to be able to do what’s right. And you’ve got to stand on principle. And you’ve got to say, why am I here? If you’re here to contort yourself into a pretzel, to try to not have to take on big issues to take the political road that’s easier to travel, then you’re not somebody that’s dependable. So we stood up. We did what was right. Yeah, we lost some support as a result of that. But if I had a chance to do it again, I would do it every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”