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As Nominee, Donald Trump Would Do Incalculable Damage to the Pro-Life Cause
National Review ^ | March 30, 2016 | David French

Posted on 03/31/2016 8:31:23 AM PDT by C19fan

I agree with Quin Hillyer. Donald Trump’s comments on abortion — first advocating punishing women who abort then backtracking hours later — were indeed a “mess.” They played into the hands of abortion advocates in every way — helping caricature pro-lifers as “anti-woman” and raising the specter of back-alley abortions. So far, Trump’s pro-life conversion has mainly served to make Planned Parenthood look good (he can’t stop praising the nation’s largest abortion provider) and the pro-life movement look bad. He simply has no idea how to talk about arguably the most sensitive issue in politics.

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This is rich coming from a man who ran "Evangelicals for Romney". Remember Romney Mr. French. Pro-Choice until he decided he wanted to run for POTUS. Whose family gave donations to Planned Parenthood.
1 posted on 03/31/2016 8:31:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

To Pro-Life? Are you nuts?


2 posted on 03/31/2016 8:32:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: C19fan
Phyllis Schlafly and Sarah Palin beg to differ
3 posted on 03/31/2016 8:32:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: C19fan

Total horse stuff...


4 posted on 03/31/2016 8:32:41 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: C19fan

No he wouldn’t.


5 posted on 03/31/2016 8:32:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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To: C19fan

National Review. Now there’s an objective source.


6 posted on 03/31/2016 8:32:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Forget it Jake, it’s nationalreviewtown.


7 posted on 03/31/2016 8:33:24 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: C19fan

Anti-Trump pundits have LOST THEIR MINDS. TDS always on display here.


8 posted on 03/31/2016 8:35:26 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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This is the kind of delusional thinking that is rampant in the PC conservative movement. Pro-Life is already lost. They cut up babies and sell their parts. One really gross abortionist is in jail, the rest are running free to kill again. The only thing left is to formally legalize fourth trimester abortion, i.e., your mother gets to kill you whenever she wants to.

After Donald J. Trump finishes doing all the things he has promised: build the wall, deport illegals and Syrian invaders, cancel Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders, roll back twenty years of intrusive government regulations, prosecute Hillary and her crew, release the secret 28 pages from the 9/11 report, negotiate prescription drug purchases, repeal and replace Obamacare, simplify the Tax code, repatriate $2.5 trillion in off-shore profits, stop the IRS from abridging the free speech of Christian Churches, reform the libel laws to remove the “public figure” distinctions, defund Planned Parenthood until the stop doing abortions, cleaning up the mess that is the VA, cutting waste, fraud and abuse where ever it is found, canceling Common Core and returning control of education to the States, end the assault on the Second Amendment, audit the Federal Reserve System, investigate the harmful additives in Vaccines and the coverup of studies at the CDC, and destroy the culture of Political Correctness, then we can talk about all the other issues that need to be addressed.


9 posted on 03/31/2016 8:37:22 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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Phyllis Schlafly and Sarah Palin beg to differ

I have not seen either of them comment on Trump's recent blunder. Have you?

10 posted on 03/31/2016 8:38:29 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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What is this “pro-life cause” spoken of? Hanging out in front of clinics with signs imploring women to do the right thing is not much of a cause, IMO.

The 9 member cabal shut down any political “cause” on this issue in 1973. There is now no recourse at all, save for a constitutional amendment or the court throwing out a precedent. The title of this thing is ridiculous.


11 posted on 03/31/2016 8:38:54 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
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Total nonsense.
The damage was done by the Supreme Court and unlikely to be undone in any foreseeable future.


12 posted on 03/31/2016 8:39:40 AM PDT by Zathras
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I don’t think a blundered response to a loaded question changes their endorsement of the man - do you?


13 posted on 03/31/2016 8:40:58 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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The states are making progress- that is where the battleground lies


14 posted on 03/31/2016 8:42:24 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Sacajaweau
Always post this when you see an article from the National e- Spew:

The Yellow Kid points the way to yellow journalism...

15 posted on 03/31/2016 8:44:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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I noticed Mr French conveniently failed to address the question that Trump was asked, that is, if abortion is murder what should the punishment for the mother be if abortion is made illegal?

This is a question that all of us anti-abortion need to come to terms with.

I’ve yet to hear a logically consistent answer.

The media and the dems will be pounding on this nonstop through November.


16 posted on 03/31/2016 8:45:46 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: C19fan

National Review = GOPe


17 posted on 03/31/2016 8:45:59 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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What is this “pro-life cause” spoken of? Hanging out in front of clinics with signs imploring women to do the right thing is not much of a cause, IMO.

You ought to try it sometime. A couple of years ago, I experienced this...

Standing on the street with a cold wind blowing, did not seem to be anything happening in the blue building, feeling a bit sorry for myself, wanting to get warm.

Then

A dark haired young woman approached me from the convenience store parking lot. I said, “Hello." She spoke not a word, but extended a hand to shake. She silently looked into my eyes, then handed me a note.

"24 years ago my mother went to a place like this because she thought she was too young and she couldn’t financially take care of me. She saw people like you and stated crying and drove away. 9 months later, she had me. I want to thank you all for what you do and what you stand for. Because of people like you, I’m alive. 2 weeks ago I saved a 3 year old from getting hit by a truck. If I hadn’t pulled him away he would have died. So in a way people like you saved his life too. Keep it up. Pass it along. God bless you all and God bless America."

Suddenly, I did not feel the cold.

18 posted on 03/31/2016 8:48:19 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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The radicalized members of the Pro-Life movement do more damage to the cause, every time one of them go near or into an abortion clinic to shoot people, in order to save unborn babies... You're comparing Trump to people who have committed murder and are saying he's worse for the cause? Trump could help the movement with it's PR image, if anything, because he actually knows more about PR than anyone in politics.
19 posted on 03/31/2016 8:49:14 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: silverleaf

I wouldn’t know. That is why I asked.


20 posted on 03/31/2016 8:50:15 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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