Posted on 04/21/2016 9:58:45 PM PDT by Slyfox
In an interview with the Today show, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he “absolutely” wants to change the Republican party’s current pro-life platform to promote abortions in cases of rape or incest.
The comment is the latest in a long line of comments from Trump upsetting pro-life voters — including multiple remarks praising the Planned Parenthood abortion business, saying abortion laws should not be changed and saying women should be punished for having abortions and flip-flopping hours later.
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Below is the full text of the current pro-life platform in the Republican Party:
THE SANCTITY AND DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
Faithful to the “self-evident” truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We oppose the non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion, permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by exacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties to health care providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives and abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a revision of federal law 42 U.S.C. 289.92 to bar the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. We support and applaud adult stem cell research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we oppose the killing of embryos for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
We also salute the many states that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health protective clinic regulation. We seek to protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement; and we affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women challenged by an unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with counseling and adoption alternatives and empower them to choose live, and we take comfort in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives.
I saw the interview and I don’t believe he said the GOP should “promote” abortion.
Give it up. There is nothing you can say that is going to change the outcome.
where is the trump quote? i just listened to the interview.
Lyin’ followers of Lyin’ Ted.
Pitiful.
He never said “promote”
Jeez, stop lyin
A pack of, urban youths.... your teen girl. That’s all I’m gonna say.
“...including multiple remarks praising the Planned Parenthood abortion business...”
Lie
I wonder if Todd Akin would agre with him?
Promote? How about permit?
Vote Trump
And he isn’t promoting it. Besides, I heard that a woman’s body has ways to shut it right down naturally if its actual rape.
Kool Aid is available on aisle 3.
More Cruzer losers grasping at straws.
Anything he says from here on is because he wants to be President. Once he’s President it’s a different ballgame, just like Obama. Abortion is not his biggest concern.
Trump literally said that abortion should be PROMOTED in case of rape?
What utter nonsense. Let’s read the exact transcript or link to the whole interview.
What insanity.
My tagline:
Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin
In cases of rape the normal procedure is to take pills.
Just after a rape there is just an egg or eggs and lots of sperm cells.
There is no fetus yet.
‘allowing’ is not ‘promoting’.
No, he sure didn’t. He said keep the Republican plank as is (no abortion at all) but “allow” abortion for cases of rape or incest. Of course, people afflicted with TDS translate that as “promote”.
I stopped following and/or supporting LifeNews.com due to their propensity for lying.
Thank you for the clarification, I am hard of hearing sometimes on posted audio, but I was pretty sure I would have remembered him “promoting” abortion.
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