Cruz Criticizes Trump: He’s Been Pro-Abortion for 60 Years, How Can We Trust Him Now?

lifenews.com ^ | February 12, 2016 | Steven Ertelt

[Morgana]

Put Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz in the category of those pro-life advocates who question the sincerity of Donald Trump’s pro-life conversion on abortion. During a campaign stop in South Carolina, Cruz questioned Trump’s pro-life bonafides, saying he has a hard time believing that someone who called himself pro-abortion for almost all his life could suddenly have a change of heart and become pro-life.

“If a candidate has spent 60 years of his life describing himself as very, very pro-choice. If a candidate has defended partial birth abortion for most of his adult life, we should not be surprised if, as president, he will not defend the right to life,” Cruz said, according to a Politico report

Some pro-life voters have questioned if Trump is truly pro-life, despite proclamations from Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin that his pro-life conversion is authentic.

Trump ultimately changed his mind on abortion years ago, announcing his pro-life position in 2011, and on partial-birth abortion in the late 1990s after learning more about what the partial-birth abortion procedure actually entails.

“I support a woman’s right to choose, but I am uncomfortable with the procedures. When Tim Russert asked me on Meet the Press if I would ban partial-birth abortion, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no. After the show, I consulted two doctors I respect and, upon learning more about this procedure, I have concluded that I would support a ban,” he said in 2000.

Since his conversion, Trump doesn’t appear to have promoted abortion and continues to say he is pro-life and opposed to funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. But, in early February, when asked on the campaign trail to provide more specifics about the kind of abortion policies he would implement as president, he declined to give any specifics.

Instead, he repeated what he has say countless times before that he is pro-life on abortion but without providing any further details about what he would do on a myriad of pro-life issues he will face as president — most notably naming judges to the Supreme Court who will determine the abortion policy for the nation for decades to come.

The lack of specifics has already caused a group of leading pro-life women to encourage pro-life voters not to vote for Trump.

In a letter provided to LifeNews, the group of pro-life women leaders claim Trump is not trustworthy on the abortion issue because offhanded comments he’s made make it appear he supports pro-abortion judges on the Supreme Court or a pro-abortion vice-presidential running mate. The group includes heavy hitters like Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List and Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America and black pro-life activist Star Parker.

The letter comes after an op-ed Trump wrote over the weekend outlining his pro-life views on abortion.

Trump opens the column explaining that he is pro-life with exceptions only for the very rarest abortions.

“Let me be clear — I am pro-life. I support that position with exceptions allowed for rape, incest or the life of the mother being at risk,” he said. “I did not always hold this position, but I had a significant personal experience that brought the precious gift of life into perspective for me.”

Trump said America has gone astray because it has moved away from the founding principles the nation’s founders put in most — most notably the right to life.

[wardaddy]

Cruz says a Trump was a baby killer from about age 8?

That’s a serious charge.

I’d say we’ve about reached terminal velocity captain...lol

[dforest]

Bokhari is getting scooped.

[dforest]

Must be Allum has the proof.

[HarleyLady27]

Why would you want to know that? Is it a problem for you to see the truth about your candidate?

[wardaddy]

That’s funny actually

What a cluster all this has become

South Carolina never disappoints

All we need now is for someone to post the ni$$erbaby(that’s French)pics of the Trump and Cruz love children born in a South Carolina hovel back when Ted and Donald were on the hunt for some brown sugar in their wasted youth on the banks of the lazy Ashley under the full moon and the live oaks....cue Leadbelly

Old Strom Thurmond must be looking down approvingly.....

[deport]

Seems most have a hickey or two.

Cruz needs to remember that he was a Canadian Citizen for some 40 years or so.

[TBP]

I never said that Trump said he wants to implement single payer in America. What he has said is that single payer “works incredibly well in Canada and Scotland” and that he says he will cover everyone and “the government will pay for it.”

Both are accurate, proven quotes. If one derives from that the idea that he wants to implement single payer in America, well, there is reason to infer that. He has never said that flat-out, and nobody has said he did. But it sounds like it may be his plan.

[wardaddy]

That black dude is quore as a four dollar bill

No question

Yikes

[Fantasywriter]

This is just Cruz’ charming way of telling Trump supporters to go to...wherever. Cruz doesn’t, apparently, need to convert a single Trump supporter to his camp. He can alienate every single Trump supporter and still win the nomination. According to him.

[zerosix]

Trump brags about his liberal views, says they come about due to his having been born and raised in liberal New York!

I don't question Trump's liberal leanings and his proud connection to all things liberal.

Trump's statement regarding border security in this campaign go against his past support for and support of liberal politians who act to prevent any kind of border support or control of illegal aliens when in the U. S.!

Walk like a duck, quack like a duck, you're a duck!

[justlittleoleme]

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[KGeorge]

ahem. . . I was just wishing to see the 0bama in Pock-ee-stahn photo posted along side it.
Is that David Barton?

[JoSixChip]

Both are accurate, proven quotes. If one derives from that the idea that he wants to implement single payer in America, well, there is reason to infer that. He has never said that flat-out, and nobody has said he did. But it sounds like it may be his plan.

Your intent was to mislead, read that lie. If you didn't know, that is called dishonest.

[The Right wing Infidel]

People change, Trump WAS a liberal but not anymore. Reagan was once a liberal.

In one year i changed from a atheist who hated christanity to a Lutheran christian, so yes i do believe trump has changed i am willing to give people a chance.

[Karl Spooner]

Probably won’t be long when you can place AC/ in front of DC Values :)

[moehoward]

“Okay, a little bit of math tells me Trump has been pro choice, as per Cruz, since he was 9???

What were Cruz’s views when he was 9?”

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Don’t go bringing common sense into this. We need to eradicate pro choice prepubescents.

[Jewbacca]

"I recommend you read his books."

I did read Trump's book. I really found this passage from his 2000 book enlightening in light of his current statements:

"Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S . warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks in Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq's crash program to become a nuclear power. They've got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers--more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They've got enriched uranium. All they need is the material for nuclear fission to complete the job, and, according to the Rumsfeld report, we don't even know for sure if they've laid their hands on that yet. That's what our last aerial assault on Iraq in 1999 was about. Saddam Hussein wouldn't let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where that material might be stored. The result when our bombing was over? We still don't know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I'm no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don't, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us."

[Jewbacca]

Marking for intended plagiarism purposes.

[TBP]

My intent is to expose your candidate’s actual record.

[JoSixChip]

My intent is to expose your candidate's actual record.

It's unfortunate that you do not understand the difference between expose and fabricate. But hang in there, it will be over with soon enough.