Posted on 09/09/2023 4:03:52 PM PDT by thegagline
Donald Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to revoke a constitutional right to abortion care, a landmark ruling that has upended abortion access for millions of Americans in the months that followed.
Within his one four-year term, the former president appointed three conservative justices to the nine-member panel, tilting the court’s ideological balance in a promised effort to achieve a long-held Republican goal of overturning the 1973 decision in Roe v Wade.
The conservative majority’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has proved unpopular with most Americans and has fuelled victories in several Democratic campaigns and ballot measures to protect abortion rights.
In remarks to a crowd of supporters at a South Dakota rally on 8 September, the former president – who once said “I’m the one that got rid of Roe v Wade” – admitted that the Supreme Court decision has “probably cost” the GOP politically.
“Last year, those justices bravely and incredibly ruled on something that everybody has wanted for decades,” Mr Trump said. “They ruled to end Roe v Wade. That was a big thing. And it’s probably cost us politically, because the other side got energised.”
Mr Trump, who has touted himself as the “most pro-life president in American history” while promising capital punishment against drug offenders and human traffickers, is among Republican candidates jockeying for the GOP’s 2024 nomination while navigating the post-Roe landscape of anti-abortion activism – and proposals for a national ban – against widespread opposition to anti-abortion laws.
He has previously called Ron DeSantis’s Florida ban on abortion access at six weeks of pregnancy “too harsh,” drawing a rare rebuke from an influential anti-abortion group. Mr Trump has avoided saying directly whether he would sign legislation to ban abortion nationally. ***
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Simply put, Trump is correct. It has cost us and it will cost us in Virginia this November and next year too nationally.
Being right has its costs.
People are stupid and immoral. And they get the government they deserve.
Bingo! Me too. I am sick of people trying to accept a false premise and then arguing over it. When the premise is false, the discussion ends.
I have voted Republican for more than 50 years.
Roe v. Wade was definitely unconstitutional, but its repeal has hurt the GOP politically.
I have stayed publicly neutral on the abortion issue, at the state level, because I am not a woman, and I will never be pregnant.
If I were a woman, I would support abortion for the first trimester, in my home state, because I would want that option as a woman, even though that option is morally wrong.
One final political point...
Close to 60% of USA abortions are now induced by medication - not surgery.
Many women, perhaps most women, do not feel that medication induced abortions, in the first trimester, are the same thing as a surgical abortion.
This is the first time in 23 years that I have expressed a political opinion about abortion at Free Republic.
Go Trump Go
thank you for your support
The government should just say “NO”, it’s not in their power to outlaw or to approve abortion. This really is a personal decision that is determined by where you are at that time, and hopefully you will keep the child.
‘Trump will lose PA because of the abort baby killers in both Dem and republican parties.’
Trump has no path to victory without PA...
No, I’m not saying that.
Admitting there has been a cost does not amount to saying it was a mistake
God knows the lives that have been saved
But are you saying protestant means pro-abortion?
1. The opinion of women on abortion carries no more weight than that of men.
2. Murder with a chemical is no different ethically than murder with a physical instrument.
Some abortion protection measures are even being put into state constitutions. I don’t believe most of these would’ve happened without the Uniparty’s stupid ( and impossible) threat to make a constitutional amendment to outlaw all abortions.
We conservatives live in a parallel universe from people who think that ending the life of an unborn baby is ok.
Reasonisfaith.
1. The opinion of women on abortion carries no more weight than that of men.
2. Murder with a chemical is no different ethically than murder with a physical instrument.
No it’s not a temporary fix. It’s the solution we have been asking for since the Roe ruling. The Constitution says those powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
That’s where it was before Roe and that’s where it need to be decided. O if you don’t like what your state decides you are free to relocate. Most of the idiots running around screaming about their right to choice live in a state that murders babies up until the moment of birth.
There is no federal ban. You sound like a Democrat operative.
Is abortion legal in PA? If so why would he lose votes?
Take heed!!!!
2 Chronicles 7:14
King James Version
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Is political expediency better than choosing what is righteous in the eyes of the Lord?
tens of millions of murdered babies and now the question becomes which can win more votes!
Maybe it’s time to become a Christian nation!
People like you always say the Republicans need to surrender and do what Democrats say, but they reality is that even when the Republicans give in completely, they are still described as more radical than ever.
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