Trump Says Abortion Ban Should Carry Punishment for Women

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[GIdget2004]

Trump says women may need punishment if abortion is banned http://bloom.bg/25wR9aJ

Follow the twitter link to the Bloomberg article.

[The Right wing Infidel]

Thats not pro life, if you think a person who murders her own unborn baby should not be charged with murder you are not pro life

[VRWCarea51]

Damned just when you thought it safe, in come the Howling Band of the Flying Monkeys aka the Trump Republican Guard.

Brace yourself. The Trump clean team has arrived...

[traderrob6]

I’m not a Trump fan but agree.

Wait and verify what was said and in what context.

[winoneforthegipper]

Bravo!

[Jedidah]

Yes.

He really could.

I don’t know if he said that, but it’s consistent with the rest of his blather.

[don-o]

Let's see if this might help a little - from link posted above

States relied on various techniques of statutory interpretation, along with the generally held belief that women were victims of their abortions, to support their decisions to refrain from prosecuting women. As the appeals court in the District of Columbia wrote in 1901, “[b]y its terms, [D.C. Code Ann. § 809 (1901)] applies to the person or persons committing the act which produces the miscarriage, and not to the person upon whom it is committed, notwithstanding it may be done with her knowledge and consent. Not being liable to indictment thereunder, she is not an accomplice in the legal sense.”6 Based on the fact that abortion was dangerous and often fatal up to the 19th century, women were seen as victims. In addition, another main reason for the non-prosecution of women is that relieving women from criminal liability provided states with a better chance of achieving convictions against abortionists—the principal.

[freespirit2012]

The whole premise of Trump’s answer was based on abortion being illegal..

[winoneforthegipper]

Clean team really?

Take a look at you Cruz brother’s on this thread. You an R2 should be ashamed to support such scum.

[xzins]

The article says “would” and the title says “should”.

“Would” makes the point better that if something is illegal, then breaking the law has some kind of punishment.

Except, of course, illegally entering our country.

It already is banned, and the result is a reward.

[Dawgreg]

I saw it, I heard it.......he said it. Maybe as long as abortion is the law, just work to overturn it or encourage hearts and minds to find it a terrible injustice to the unborn.......but punish women for abortions?? I’m sure he’ll have to backtrack but Hellary and her gang of abortion-loving hacks are dancing around the campfire right now.

[The Right wing Infidel]

So you think a woman who murders her own baby should not face any criminal charges?

Yes its not the law right now but trump said he believes it should a crime for women to murder there unborn babies, how is that wrong ? Should he pussyfoot around it like your avarage double talking politician ?

The christian nation of San Marino jails women who get abortions and the abortion doctors

[free_life]

How refreshing a honest unafraid conservative candidate instead of the lying weasels running against him.

Go Trump go!

[freespirit2012]

I think you greatly underestimate the number of pro-life women voters..

[Conservative Gato]

Already blaring the punishment thing on left wing news bites. Oh man. Pray for our country.\

I don't know why people here are worried about that. They are the people and their wicked culture that we have to defeat in order to get this country back on track.

There was not a wrong thing Trump said here. Too many people here are proving to be stuck on political correctness. The same tool of political correctness the leftists are using to try to take down this country.

CGato

[PJBankard]

I don’t think so. He has said that the decision was up to the states previously.

[Dawgreg]

That’s what I was trying to say.......but he needs to clear it up......I still love the guy......;)

[GrouchoTex]

Let’s be honest about this.

Trump has been on all sides of this issue since he was a well enough known quantity to get in front on a TV camera.

Who really knows where he stands on this issue?

He has now put himself in a can’t win position.

What has happened to those “smartest people” he is going to hire and surround himself with?

He better do that....

....and Quick!

[The Right wing Infidel]

If a woman murders her newborn baby she gets charged for murder, why should it be any different when she kills her baby while it is still in the womb ?

[PJBankard]

I’m a Trump supporter and there is nothing wrong with what he said, and his “clarification” that it is a state rights issue is not a flip flop.

[Antoninus]

You know you want to. But you also know you’ll get the zot if you really explain your true pro-abort views.

Yawn. Go find another straw-man to beat up.