Posted on 04/04/2016 7:58:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In his final swing through Wisconsin before the state's Tuesday presidential primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said states should be allowed to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
Cruz took questions from Fox News host Megyn Kelly and audience members at a town hall event Monday at the Madison Masonic Center.
Early in the event, a woman who described herself as a moderate, pro-choice Republican told Cruz she's afraid if he becomes president he will outlaw abortion entirely.
Cruz said he wants to see people's hearts and minds changed on the issue. He argued laws should be changed at the state level, not through judicial decisions.
He also said he believes the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision is not settled law, calling it an example of judicial activism.
Kelly then noted that Cruz doesn't favor exceptions to allow abortion in cases of rape or incest.
"When it comes to rape, rape is a horrific crime against the humanity of a person, and needs to be punished and punished severely," Cruz said. "But at the same time, as horrible as that crime is, I don't believe it's the child's fault. And we weep at the crime, we want to do everything we can to prevent the crime on the front end, and to punish the criminal, but I don't believe it makes sense to blame the child."
Cruz took the question as an opportunity to criticize his Republican foe, real estate mogul Donald Trump, who said last week that if abortion were illegal, women ought to be punished for having one.
Trump later walked back his statement, saying he believes abortion should be illegal but that abortion providers and not the women who receive them should be punished
Cruz said Trump's comments were the words of a liberal trying to say what conservatives want to hear. He argued that women are victims of abortion, and said no conservative wants to see women punished.
Over the weekend, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards campaigned for Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She argued that women are already being punished by laws that make it increasingly difficult to obtain an abortion.
Richards, speaking at a private event on Saturday, said there is "not a daylight of difference between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and John Kasich" on the issue.
Cruz was joined on Monday by two former presidential candidates now supporting him: Gov. Scott Walker and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
He plans to await Wisconsin's primary results at Serb Hall in Milwaukee, according to his campaign.
The full interview and town hall event is set to air Monday night during Kelly's 8 p.m. show.
I can hear the indy women’s vote running to him now.
Cruz said he wants to see people’s hearts and minds changed on the issue. He argued laws should be changed at the state level, not through judicial decisions.
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In other words, he’s not going to do anything.
So he’s “sleazy” when he’s “pandering” and he’s “stupid” when he stands firm?
How will Mr. Trump change things?
How will Mr. Trump change things?
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I don’t believe either will.
The best thing we can hope for in the near future is defunding it with tax payer’s money.
“So he’s “sleazy” when he’s “pandering” and he’s “stupid” when he stands firm?”
I didn’t say he was stupid.
One of the main rationals for voting Cruz seems to be “Women won’t vote for Trump”.
Well, Cruz won’t garner any more of the women’s vote than Trump, especially in the must win swing states.
He will lose millions of Trump voters, though.
No exceptions for incest or rape or the rare case of mothers life?
Yet he piled on Trump being controversial when Trump logically stated if abortion was illegal it would seem fitting there some sort of punishment for the woman who kills her baby
And the world exploded....the same so called pro life professionals who most of them hate Trump anyhow unloaded on him at the very same time they proclaim abortion is murder
Yet for this murder no punishment
And Cruz piled on like he does even if it contradicts his image if he thinks it scores points with the media
This is why I don’t like him....he’s just another politician running better conservative and Christian self aggrandizement
All this serves one purpose and it’s to stop Trump
That is why Cruz is still in the race....he would have to almost skunk Trump from here on out....ain’t happening
He thinks by helping the world stop Trump he gets something
Maybe he’s already made his deal
It ain’t gonna be delegates
Well, what are we trying to save then?
Why do we want to win if gay marriage, abortion, men using women’s bathrooms and children getting to decide what sex they want to be is off the table?
We’re just Fiscal Conservatives now? What does that mean? Let’s hold America together another 20 years so we can make a buck. no.
We’re fiscally AND socially conservative.
This is what we believe and I’m sick of candidates lying about it.
If the country has changed so much that what should be seen as terribly evil is now fine, then let’s have it out in the open.
Otherwise what’s the point?
The article you posted isn’t about Trump. Like Teddy you can’t stay on subject without trying to smear Trump.
“How will Mr. Trump change things?”
Neither Trump nor Cruz will change anything. Abortion is an issue- for politics and fundraising. A political football and a fundraising tool.
You know it and I know it.
It is impossible to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
Social liberalism inherently leads to big government. The breakdown of the nuclear family creates the need for big government.
You’re right. I never thought of it that way.
The only thing that creates an actual need for big government is socialism. Today’s “conservative” is yesteryear’s Democrat, while today’s Democrat is a Communist.
Definitions have changed dramatically.
A socially conservative has zero chance in todays america.
It sucks but its the truth.
Ted Cruz is 100% unelectable. Damn this election has become absolutely hopeless.
One cannot ban abortion any more than one can ban murder.
One can however, clearly prosecute all forms of abortion, just like one prosecutes all types of murder.
Oh, BTW, since abortion is murder, they are synonymous.
Welfare destroyed the black family....So now it requires even more entitlement spending to fix the problems created by the original “fix”.
We’ve been circling the drain for awhile, and now the drain is getting closer.
“[Cruz] argued laws should be changed at the state level”
Lying Ted is at it again. Every time a state tries to stop abortion, every time, the courts knock the effort down.
He is aware of that. He knows that line is futile and is his substitute for just dismissing the topic.
Could he be considered as pandering over the murder of babies?
“A socially conservative has zero chance in todays america.”
BS.
If one is not socially conservative, one is not a true conservative.
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