Posted on 04/02/2016 5:53:44 AM PDT by doldrumsforgop
Two days after GOP presidential contender Donald Trump caused a firestorm after walking back his statement that women who have illegal abortions should receive some form of “punishment,” he said during another interview that abortion “laws are set,” and they should be left that way until changed.
In an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation – the broadcast of which will be aired on Sunday – Trump again attempted to clarify his views to moderator John Dickerson.
When asked by Dickerson – from a pro-abortion perspective — “What would you do to further restrict access to abortion?” Trump responded, “The laws are set now on abortion and that’s the way they’re going to remain until they’re changed.”
“A question was asked to me. And it was asked in a very hypothetical,” Trump explained about his prior MSNBC interview with Chris Matthews. “And it was said, ‘Illegal, illegal.’ I’ve been told by some people that was an older line answer and that was an answer that was given on a, you know, basis of an older line from years ago on a very conservative basis.”
When Dickerson mentioned a prior Bloomberg interview during which Trump reportedly said he believed abortion should be banned after a certain point in pregnancy, Trump replied, “I would’ve preferred states’ rights. I think it would’ve been better if it were up to the states. But right now, the laws are set….At this moment, the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way.”
“Do you think abortion is murder?” Dickerson asked. After considering the question for several moments, Trump responded, “I have my opinions on it, but I’d rather not comment on it.”
“You said you were very pro-life,” Dickerson followed up. “Pro-life means that…abortion is murder.”
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Only one looking stupid is you. The official name for the Federal Government from your high-school civics class is “These Untied States’ Federal Government.” Please note its possessive from the States and States is Plural.
But then when you are badly educated as you have demonstrated in public its not a surprising.
America is not a democracy with a singular head as your position has indicated, its a Constitutional Republic with Soverign States that have their own governments and laws. The United part is where the States united to provide a common defense for all states, to provide for unrestricted commerce between the states and to manage trade with foreign countries.
The States have the power under the 5th Amendment to disband the entire federal government.
Why punish women for aborting their babies? Why make abortion illegal?
What is the worst thing a mother can do? Kill its own child. THIS HAPPENS 1000 TIMES EVERY SINGLE DAY OF EVERY WEEK OF EVERY MONTH OF EVERY YEAR....YEAR AFTER YEAR.
IN AMERICA AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD..1000 every single day.
..AND THAT IS JUST AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD, IT IS PROBABLY TWICE THAT.
It is never the babies fault. There is not any reason at all..... to punish any baby with the death penalty. ITS NOT THE BABIES FAULT. EVER. KILLING THE BABY IS A TERRIBLE CRIME. ONE THOUSAND TIMES EVERY DAY? YES UNBELIEVEABLE GENOCIDE.
But what about incest and rape and deformities and prenatal disease and sickness and the health of the mother?
Do you think there are 1000 cases of pregnancy resulting from rape and incest every day?
............In the United States, 1 percent of 1,900 women questioned in 1987 listed rape or incest as the reason for having an abortion.
When a society kills its own young, it kills its own future, it kills the value of Life. It kills the ability to support a society and instead becomes a situation where less workers must support more older retired people.
Abortion creates in the women and men a selfishness, an irresponsibility. It kills its families.
Mankinds greatest accomplishment to date has been to leave the planet and walk on the moon.
1969.
Abortion became legal in 1973
Ever since... our illegal immigration has grown until now there are tens of millions of illegal alliens
in America. ....simply because the millions of dead American babies needed to be replaced for the workplace of the future
It creates a need for the increased immigration to fill the jobs created...thus creating an uphill battle for the youth of this country to compete at lower wages which immigrants who are willing to work for less, and are willin to take a lower
standard of living.
It brings values that are foreign and a lack of knowlegde of the history of this Country...of what is Greatness, what it takes to accomplish it and what it takes to keep it.
....MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. VIVA TRUMP
now you are spitting out gibberish when that answer to
“In your opinion, what are the top three functions of the United States government?”
sorry, no spin like that can recover him.
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