[Responsibility2nd]

Trump is breaking brand new ground here. And it has nothing to do with conservatism.

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So Trump making a comment on abortion has nothing to do with abortion?

This “brand new ground” here? This is Trump simply using a hot button issue to his advantage?

He better own this abortion remark 100% or lose. And lose badly.

Sure, the libs will beat him like a rented mule for making it. But if he walks it back - he will lose my vote and all other Socon votes.

[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.