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Male politicians who oppose abortion rights are going to face some uncomfortable questions
CNN ^ | May 20, 2019 | Joe Lockhart

Posted on 05/20/2019 3:12:59 PM PDT by Morgana

CNN)Last week, Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country. In addition to banning nearly all abortions except in cases where the pregnancy poses a serious health risk to the mother, doctors who perform the procedure can be convicted of a felony and jailed for life.

The law has yet to go into effect, and politicians have explicitly stated their desire for legal challenges to make it up to the Supreme Court as part of a long-standing effort to overturn Roe v. Wade. And given the bench's conservative slant after Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh's confirmations under President Donald Trump, that may be a real possibility.

Where does Trump stand on abortion? After years of saying he was pro-choice, Trump changed his tune when he decided to run for President. It's useful to revisit a long-forgotten town hall from March 2016, when then-candidate Trump told MSNBC's Chris Matthews he was pro-life. When pressed on what the law should be, Trump said, "The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment." Matthews tried to clarify, saying, "For the woman," to which Trump responded, "Yeah, there has to be some form."

Days later, Trump tried to walk back his comments in an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, saying he was answering Matthews' questions hypothetically. She wrote, "Given his draconian comment, sending women back to back alleys, I had to ask: When he was a swinging bachelor in Manhattan, was he ever involved with anyone who had an abortion?" Trump's response? "Such an interesting question. So what's your next question?"

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Real men protect babies even unborn ones.
1 posted on 05/20/2019 3:13:00 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Translation: CNN directs people to ask questions of politicians in the vague understanding that any answer the left doesn't approve of will automatically disavow them of candidacy.

As exemplified by Trump having to drop out of the 2016 election.

You'd imagine that maybe CNN might contemplate that there's another result... Nahh, they're the bubble boy/girl/QWERTY of the 2010’s.

2 posted on 05/20/2019 3:16:43 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Morgana

As will women who don’t support infanticide. Screw CNN.


3 posted on 05/20/2019 3:17:32 PM PDT by Luke21 (Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work work.)
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To: Morgana
She wrote, "Given his draconian comment, sending women back to back alleys, I had to ask: When he was a swinging bachelor in Manhattan, was he ever involved with anyone who had an abortion?" Trump's response? "Such an interesting question. So what's your next question?"

Impertinent question. If he wanted to be rude, he would ask if she ever slept with a man who had a venereal disease.
4 posted on 05/20/2019 3:18:13 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Morgana

How long until someone slams down that Gloria Steinem quote: “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament”? :P


5 posted on 05/20/2019 3:19:24 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Morgana

A woman cannot have an abortion without a man.

Therefore a man should (and must) have a voice in the matter.


6 posted on 05/20/2019 3:19:49 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Morgana

Can anyone describe a medical scenairo whereby an abortion would be required to save a womans life?

With C sections and induced labor etc, how at 3rd trimester is killing the baby ever necessary? Just asking....


7 posted on 05/20/2019 3:19:53 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Liberalism is a mental disorder, and is revealed through abject stupidity)
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To: Morgana

Here’s an embarrassing question to ask Democrats: Can you show us the paragraph in the Constitution giving anyone, male or female, the right to kill babies?

Wombs are not for raising mushrooms. There are live human babies there.


8 posted on 05/20/2019 3:21:10 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: DanielRedfoot

It’s not. Yes they can induce labor and save the mom and possibly the baby as well.


9 posted on 05/20/2019 3:21:34 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: txrefugee

Men are constantly told if they want 100% protection from the risk of being held responsible for child, they simply need to (say it with me...) “keep their pants zipped up”

Women on the other hand insist that they possess a right to a sex life without incurring the risk of creating a baby.

Only women have a supposed right to a sex life with zero parental risk. A male is told sex always comes with that risk and he gets no say.

Lets have some equality.


10 posted on 05/20/2019 3:26:38 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Morgana

Half the babies murdrmered in abotuaries are male.

Men have a stake in the issue.


11 posted on 05/20/2019 3:28:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Morgana

Rights? There are no abortion rights.


12 posted on 05/20/2019 3:30:18 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Morgana

How about “Women politicians who favor murdering unborn humans face some uncomfortable questions” instead?


13 posted on 05/20/2019 3:30:42 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: DesertRhino

Lets have some equality.

Indeed. I’d almost enjoy seeing men given the RIGHT to demand that women abort their off-spring - just to see how the Nazi-like left would respond to THAT.


14 posted on 05/20/2019 3:32:09 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: Pravious

They won’t have to answer those questions in the politically correct world we live in now but in the hereafter I imagine it will be a different story.


15 posted on 05/20/2019 3:35:48 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Kriggerel

It sure seems women have made abortion a sacrament.

No need to hypothesize about men making it one.

Women actually have made abortion a sacrament, and a state-subsidized one at that.


16 posted on 05/20/2019 3:36:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

> Male politicians who oppose abortion rights are going to face some uncomfortable questions <

175 years ago that headline would have read:

“Northern politicians who oppose slavery rights are going to face some uncomfortable questions”


17 posted on 05/20/2019 3:38:47 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BenLurkin
Half the babies murdrmered in abotuaries are male. Men have a stake in the issue.

It's somewhat less than half. Some are done because the child is the correct sex to pass on the family name (especially in a certain country that only allows one.)

18 posted on 05/20/2019 3:39:06 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Morgana

Wasn’t Lockhart one of the Bam’s spokesliars?


19 posted on 05/20/2019 3:39:40 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Morgana

“abortion rights” = Infanticide rights


20 posted on 05/20/2019 3:40:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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