Posted on 01/24/2016 2:09:17 AM PST by Sun
On the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, many GOP presidential contenders were not silent. While Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton continue to defend the horrors of abortion, Republicans Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, and Ben Carson took to social media. Recognizing the tragedy of over 58 million lives lost, these candidates explained why they stand for life.
Donald Trump, however, has been silent on abortion, the March for Life, and Roe v. Wade all day. He is the only GOP front runner to avoid making a statement. Issues concerning Trump’s pro-abortion past continue to rise – including his statement that his sister would be “one of the best†justices for the U.S. Supreme Court, despite her ruling in favor of partial-birth abortion as a circuit judge.
Trump’s lack of a statement on the anniversary of Roe further illustrate the muddle he is in with pro-lifers and conservatives. His statements are viewed by some as very concerning, including his recent observation that “[W]e have to look at the positives, also, for Planned Parenthood.â€
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Trump had someone write his little OP ED the day AFTER the MArch, if he was informed the statement would have been before the March for life, or he would have issued the statement to be read at the MArch as other did.
Trump thinks his sister would be a terrific USSC Justice yet she had written opinions from the bench supporting Partial Birth Abortion.
He is pandering and doesn’t have firm pro life beliefs.
Thanks, and it is hypocritical for Trump to say that Ben Carson was once pro-”choice” when Trump was far MORE pro-”choice” recently.
Perhaps you should ask those of us who are prolife ......
....who have risked much.....to be prolife
I trust Donald Trump to honor .....Life......
.....and to protect the organizations & the crisis pregnancy centers and 43 years of faithful service and activism to insure our nation
.....once again..stands for Life.
Trump also said, if you read the OP, that “his sister would be “one of the best†justices for the U.S. Supreme Court, despite her ruling in favor of partial-birth abortion as a circuit judge. ..”
What kind of judges would he pick if he were president?
A few things.
It is the fact that his choice hinged on whether one kid was a loser or not. His own words. That is disturbing.
Regarding faith: “You Will Know Them by Their Fruits”.
There is zero fruit on this front from Trump. It is all words. He’s not championed anyone or made any donations for pro-life causes that I know of. He certainly did pro-abortion causes.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/trump-has-never-sought-forgiveness/
From link above:
Moderator Frank Luntz asked Trump whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness for his actions.
“I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so,” he said. “I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”
Does that make any sense to you? How is it possible to be a Christian without ever asking for forgiveness???
I cannot vote a man into the most powerful office in the world based on faith in his words alone. I need some fruits - some evidence beyond words.
As someone who gives public witness, and prays in front of Planned Parenthood, and collects baby items from our Church for pro-life centers, I worry TREMENDOUSLY about what kind of judges will Donald Trump pick.
I believe his priority would be picking pro-eminent domain judges.
I’m sure you’ve noticed, but most Trump supporters are delusional and will completely ignore anything he’s said or done (or embrace it, no matter how insane, as something conservative or pro-American).
He’s an opportunistic cult-of-personality candidate who is possibly the only person in the Republican field who can lose this election.
Why?
What evidence to you offer? His words?
See post #25.
His story does imply that. His rationale is akin to Anders Behring Breiviks' when he said in his manifesto that a resurgence of Judeo-Christian culture is what will save Europe from Islamization even though he was not a practitioner. Trump's argument in his op-ed is that the right to life is useful as form of social utility which coincides with his description of the rules of building construction and physics. Which is consistent with his characterization of his moment of conversion. Trump is not making a moral argument.
For some that will be enough. They'll take what they can get. I'd like to see what I he said on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 2015. And after all this time, he mentions federalism and the 10th amendment? Just after he said land in western states should be retained by the federal government? Like somebody else said, I wonder who wrote this for him.
Reminds me of the scene in “Blazing Saddles”, where Mel Brooks pointed and said, “I didn’t get a harrumph outta that guy.”
As someone who has given public witness....
.....prayed in front of an abortion clinic...( many times, many years)
......volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center
I disagree with you from every fiber of my heart!
DONALD TRUMP WILL HONOR LIFE!
I believe what he’s saying is that you are stating this as an article of blind faith because Trump has never been pro-life through action. He has been pro-abortion through both words and action. At present, he claims to be pro-life, but this is questionable for the obvious reasons.
You can shout that Trump will honor life, but again, that is blind faith and nothing more.
So you take it on faith because your heart tells you so?
... At best, Trump doesn’t seem to have the passion for the life issue, and I fear he would not pick true pro-life judges.
And those same judges could and would affect our gun rights along with others.
How can DT be trusted to appoint after he trashed Scalia last month?
I am sure trumpees have well thought out reasons they will present to you./s
you’re joking, right?
That’s not true.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3386307/posts?page=3#3
Donald Trump op-ed: My vision for a Culture of Life
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387551/posts
“As someone who has given public witness....
.....prayed in front of an abortion clinic...( many times, many years)
......volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center
Very glad to hear that, and I also volunteered at a pro-life center, the same center that I recently brought many baby items to.
But I vehemently disagree with you. Donald Trump might even appoint his partial-birth-abortion sister as judge (read opening post excerpt).
A charitable take on his own words is that he would not have had an epiphany, if the child was a loser. Some people realize the depravity that is abortion when they realize that Einstein could have been aborted. This is the spark of the epiphany, that all lives have tremendous potential, even the one who turns out to be a loser.
I don't disagree that Trump may be a cafeteria Christian, and I find no fault with those who reject him on that basis. We are all imperfect voters, and we have no perfect candidate.
and yet you had no qualms about voting for pro-abortion Romney...
who declared that Roe V Wade was “the law of the land” and he “sustained it” (the highest honor a Mormon can do about an issue or person) and he promised to not overturn it.. he would not do anything to stop a woman from getting an abortion that she had a right too...
plus he was for underage girls getting permission from a judge for an abortion if her parents tried to stop her...
so much for family values...
Next...
except for those pesky incest babies.
yeah, those abortions happen more than people think.
i know. it’s a straw man argument.
if it’s a few hundred, that’s the price to pay to save the country, right?
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