Posted on 03/30/2016 12:59:51 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Donald Trump is at it again. The Republican presidential candidate who says hes pro-life but praises the Planned Parenthood abortion business is now making the entirely pro-life movement look ridiculous with his latest comments.
While pro-life advocates yearn for the day when unborn children are protected under law and abortions are banned, the pro-life movement has historically opposed punishing women who have abortions instead focusing on holding abortion practitioners criminally accountable for the unborn children they kill in abortions.
That pro-woman mentality is partly due to the understand that the abortion industry preys on women selling them abortions by lying to them about the humanity of their unborn children and the destructive effects abortion will have. The pro-woman, pro-life attitude is also partly due to the fact that the pro-life movement is led by millions of women who had abortions and now deeply regret their decisions, thanks to a change of heart on abortion, or a religious conversion or a simply understanding that they took the life of their own child.
Now, in new comments that are causing even pro-life people to cringe, Donald Trump says women should be punished if abortion is banned again. Heres more:
In a taped town hall interview with MSNBCs Chris Matthews to be aired later on Wednesday, Trump was pressed on how he would go about banning abortion.
Should abortion be punished? This is not something you can dodge, Matthews asked him.
Look, people in certain parts of the Republican Party, conservative Republicans, would say, Yes, it should, Trump responded.
Matthews then pressed him for a straight answer on what a ban on abortion would entail.
Well, you go back to a position like they had where they would perhaps go to illegal places but we have to ban it, Trump answered.
The former reality television star later added that there has to be some form of punishment, for women who get abortions after a ban is implemented, acknowledging the punishment would have to be determined.
Leading pro-life advocates on Twitter collectively face-palmed were quick to point out the ineptitude of Trumps comments, saying they make him loko as if he is not genuinely pro-life:
After Donald J. Trump finishes doing all the liberal things he has promised: build the wall, deport illegals and Syrian invaders, cancel Obamas unconstitutional executive orders, roll back twenty years of intrusive government regulations, prosecute Hillary and her crew, release the secret 28 pages from the 9/11 report, negotiate prescription drug purchases, repeal and replace Obamacare, simplify the Tax code, repatriate $2.5 trillion in off-shore profits, stop the IRS from abridging the free speech of Christian Churches, reform the libel laws to remove the public figure distinctions, defund Planned Parenthood until the stop doing abortions, cleaning up the mess that is the VA, cutting waste, fraud and abuse where ever it is found, canceling Common Core and returning control of education to the States, end the assault on the Second Amendment, audit the Federal Reserve System, investigate the harmful additives in Vaccines and the coverup of studies at the CDC, and destroy the culture of Political Correctness, then we can talk about all those conservative issues some people want to address.
“If the pro-life movement, with the help of pro-life judges and subsequent legislation can ever prevail in making abortion illegal, punishing the practitioners would work out just fine.”
Does that extend to all women that kill their children?
Thus we should not have prosecuted Andrea Yates, but instead prosecuted the utility that provided the water to fill the bathtub.
You’re more than welcome FRiend.
The abortion doctors didn’t get them pregnant, so women should bare the responsibility
Significant progress has been made in the fight to end abortion. The same old tired tactics of shaming women don’t work.
Statements such as this make it easier for the pro-murder people.
Be fair, was asked if it was ILLEGAL should there be punishment. Shouldn't there be consequences for breaking laws? https://t.co/FcR0IReRM5— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 30, 2016
“they make him loko as if he is not genuinely pro-life”
That’s because he’s not.
Trump has said, many times now, that PP should be defunded because of abortion.
The only thing Donald is going to be doing is dragging his pouty rear end back to Manhattan.
Are you one of these women?
Thank you Katy you're the only one that included the question which was if it was ILLEGAL should there be punishment https://t.co/XXrGvXMHjw— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 30, 2016
Well, if 70+% of woman hate Trump over abortion, I don’t know where you go with. The game is over anyway as we await our deserved judgment.
Trump has said PP should be defunded because of abortion.
The way they’ve been wilding on Heidi Cruz, it’s clear they’ve lost their sense of decency.
No not a hearing problem but the full context doesn't make for the salacious sound byte they are all looking for! https://t.co/RXQqB9vkY7— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 30, 2016
He will walk this back. Claim he was misunderstood. Diarrhea of the mouth, constipation of the brain. It happens. And it will happen more with Trump, if only because he’s recorded more and is scrutinized with a larger magnifying glass than any of his opponents.
Now, that is a position that is utterly incoherent.
Who cares as long as he will defund if PP doesn't stop performing abortions?
If we allow the anti-abortion question to crush us, then what does any of it matter?
That is your premise, not mine.
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