Posted on 03/31/2016 10:57:26 AM PDT by Morgana
Donald Trump’s comment, and subsequent backtracking, of a claim that women should be “punished” for having an abortion has sparked furious debate nationwide and within pro-life circles.
In a new interview, pro-life Ohio Governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he disagrees with punishing women who have abortions by putting them in jail. Here’s what Kasich had to say:
TODD: “Chris Matthews asked Donald Trump should there be some form of punishment for women who have an abortion? And Trump says yeah, I think there should be a punishment. He didn’t describe what that punishment is. I know you’re somebody who believes abortion should be banned. should women who get abortions be punished?”
KASICH: “Absolutely not. I do have exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother, but abortions shouldn’t be punished. I’m sure Donald Trump will say he didn’t say it or he was misquoted or whatever, but i don’t think so. I don’t think that’s an appropriate response and it’s a difficult enough situation than to try to punish somebody.”
TODD: “Let me ask this, how do you enforce a ban on abortion?”
KASICH: “Look, I think it’s rape, incest and life of the mother and you build some restrictions around it. But I think you have to be very careful on the way you do it.”
Maybe we should allow them to have retroactive abortions like the liberal women are asking for?
Anyway, by contrast, Hillary would not allow herself to be interviewed by anyone who would ask her a question tougher than, "how is your grandchild?" I know that the establishment wants to crucify Trump over this, but this is another one of those 'out of context' controversies that the MSM wants to squeeze into a sound byte for maximum Trump damage - nothing more.
This is stupid to even talk about. Really, what are the chances in our lifetime that roe vs wade would ever be overturned? The longer abortions are allowed the longer it will be before its reversed. Same as the draft and if we wait too much longer Obamacare . It’s a hypothetical question and there’s no correct answer. Everyone is making way way too much of it. He’ll there’s a candidate getting ready to be grilled by the FBI and we are fussing over a hypothetical question.
So then, why do we get sidetracked with this issue? If we went back to the old laws then the mothers wouldn’t be punished. They should just say that the old laws would be reinstated and leave it at that.
What, are you like the liberals who think men aren’t allowed to have an opinion on the matter?
So, all 3 candidates think the same on it. Although one particular candidate might change his mind back & forth 237 times before November.
If abortions shouldn’t be punished, then neither should refusing to pay child support.
This is horrible. Just when you think things cannot get any worse..........they do. :(
My first real disagreement with him
He should not have walked it back
Abortion is usually it’s own punishment, ask the pro-life people at an abortion protest who had one and deeply regretted it later.
From what i can tell only the sociopath women are the ones who have an abortion and no regrets or remorse. Either sociopath ones or the deeply under educated ones.
I bet Trump wishes he had just said that!
I imagine those laws were eventually repealed, post-Roe. So, state legislatures would need to start from scratch.
But if you shake a 1 month old and it dies...you go to prison.
Well, as long as abortion is legal, there shouldn’t be any child support for unwed mothers.
They freely chose to have a child with no promise of support, when they could have legally avoided it. So why should the power of the state intervene to retroactively fix their mistake?
Back in the day it was doable to go to the American people and have 99.9% of abortions never happen. Properly framed it should have been argued NO ABORTIONS, except for rape with a police report or incest with a police report or the real physical death risk to the mother with a doctor's report. Instead hard headed people went for NO reason ever for an abortion and with that argument got many millions killed instead IMO.
Same argument should be going on with pot. We should say it is legal for ONLY extreme chronic or terminal cases with a full doctor's report and not to everyone with a note whose origin was by a doctor advocated in some porn magazine.
I would like to see no abortions and I think all life is precious, but we can't justify that IMO to a girl or woman raped.
I also see the pot issue as equally corrupting to future generations as abortion has been.
Abortion and pot both destroy the prior successful culture that formed the USA.
Back in the day it was doable to go to the American people and have 99.9% of abortions never happen. Properly framed it should have been argued NO ABORTIONS, except for rape with a police report or incest with a police report or the real physical death risk to the mother with a doctor's report. Instead hard headed people went for NO reason ever for an abortion and with that argument got many millions killed instead IMO.
Same argument should be going on with pot. We should say it is legal for ONLY extreme chronic or terminal cases with a full doctor's report and not to everyone with a note whose origin was by a doctor advocated in some porn magazine.
I would like to see no abortions and I think all life is precious, but we can't justify that IMO to a girl or woman raped.
I also see the pot issue as equally corrupting to future generations as abortion has been.
Abortion and pot both destroy the prior successful culture that formed the USA.
sooo if i get the argument, abortion should be ended, which means banned, yet there should be no penalty for those who ignore the ban...?
if no penalty for ignoring the ban, then why bother?
Make it illegal.
You will find the only universal consistency on this issue is that the woman should not "suffer alone."
It is important from the context of a president appointing SCOTUS (and federal) judges. If the right judges get approved, Roe can be overturned.
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