Posted on 04/21/2016 10:32:44 AM PDT by writer33
Donald Trump said Thursday he would change the Republican Party platform's position on abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Trump made the remarks during a town hall on the "Today" show on NBC on Thursday morning when host Savannah Guthrie asked him about abortion exceptions.
"The Republican platform every four years has a provision that states that the right of the unborn child should not be infringed," Guthrie said. "And it makes no exceptions for rape, for incest, for the life of the mother. Would you want to change the Republican platform to include the (abortion) exceptions that you have?"
"Yes, I would. Yes, I would. Absolutely," Trump said. "For the three exceptions, I would."
Currently, the Republican platform abortion policy reads: "We assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed."
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This is not new information. He has said this all along.
He is for states taking back their original power. His answer was apropos. He is right, too, about bringing the Blessing back to having children. Anything else is satanic.
I supported him, and now I think he’s inevitable, but I disagree with him on the exceptions, except life (even then, I don’t believe in directly killing the baby). I knew that was his position, but I do not agree with changing the platform. Romney believed in exceptions when they had that platform and didn’t try to change it. He has concerned me like in his interview with CBS where he was asked several times before he conceded that, yes, abortion is murder and seemed to indicate the laws we have now are okay. Hope Hicks then hurried and put out a statement that he would appoint judges to overturn Roe vs. Wade and the laws would then change. He has to be held to that.
It’s obvious that abortion is not his wheelhouse, and he’s not well versed on the pro-life “talking points” so to speak. My sincere hope is that he could sit down with pro-life groups, some of whom obviously didn’t like him this primary season, and talk about the issue.
No, we're not. We're a constitutional republic that was predicated on the laws of nature and nature's God.
Amen.
I’m a lawyer, I know what the key issues are. I’m also interested in a. Candidates commitment to life.
It would be a freaking brutal situation. A situation that the government has NO right to be involved in.
My wife had complications during a birth of one of my sons and I had never been so scared in my life. And I was a combat infantryman.
More people have been aborted than killed, tortured, and kidnapped by Islamic terrorists (but I repeat myself). The person who could have prevented all this might have been aborted. I stand by my comment: without the right to life, no other rights matter.
Yes and what does that have to do with the Biblical example of Israel Kings?
Agreed, that would be the way to end it, that is why the Liberals want to keep it at the Federal level.
A theocracy is a religious state.
That is the point.
We are not electing a President to end abortion.
Bingo.
Some of our loudest Republican families have helped commit “abortions” on a lot of already born people as well. Republican is a convenient cloak to wear that doesn’t mean you do one thing to further that platform.
I know that Trump back away from his earlier comment regarding punishing women for abortion, but that doesn’t change the fact that when he made the initial statement he was attacked for taking a position that the pro-life position doesn’t take!
Yes, but his commitment to life as President has very little practical application.
There. Will. Always. Be. Abortions.
Legal or not. Self-committed or not.
It’s a sad truth of life, like suicide or even rape.
What we need is to make sure taxpayers don’t have to pay for them. I despise abortions but I can’t stop others from getting them. I know the history. They were performed before they were legal in my city by corrupt doctors, the same kind that prescribe marijuana today for “depression” or even the kind who will “sell” scripts for Oxy.
All I know is that I have had to defend Reagan from this scurrilous charge more this year than ever - And more here on FR than anywhere else. There is definitely a movement afoot to liberalize the Abortion plank at the expense of Reagan.
You’re one of the few around here that get it, even here on FR. So many are confused about this stuff - the relevance and criticality of getting the Constitution, states’ rights, and our freedom back front and center against the $4 trillion, mostly unconstitutional, federal government.
Anyone out there that would deny a woman an abortion that has an Ectopic Pregnancy? Respond if that would be you.
In this case it really is about the life of the mother. And there are about 200,000 a year in the United States. It dwarfs the the handful of pregnancy’s from rape or incest, BTW.
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