Posted on 03/30/2016 2:07:44 PM PDT by xzins
The Cruz campaign has gone on record supporting women getting abortions. The campaign says there should be no punishment for those women if abortion is illegal. Deadline Hollywood reports:
Ted Cruz campaign chairman Chad Sweet...this afternoon told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Cruz believes in punishment for doctors who perform abortions, not the women who get them.
Pro-life supporters are scratching their heads. If they succeed in getting a pro-life amendment, Ted Cruz appears to be saying that the amendment should contain some kind of non-culpability clause, so that Congress can write any law resulting from a Life Amendment in a manner that allows women to have abortions in this country with no worries about the law.
In fact, since Cruz thinks only doctors should be punished, if a nurse or other type of provider performs the abortion, then the odd situation of a Life Amendment with abortions still being performed will be the result. The bottom line is that Ted Cruz has no problem with women having abortions.
One has to wonder sometimes about lawyers.
Ping. Here’s a conundrum
How many times do we need to have this stupid, dishonest debate?
What kind of punishment should we give women who have abortions? THAT is the question.
CruzTards must be in meltdown mode? And I would normally be a Cruz guy, but this? This right here? Really? This is OK? This is what the GOPe makes him do?
AT LEAST TRUMPsters are honest.
What a load of garbage. Cruz isn’t supporting women getting abortions.
Hypothetical question, but wouldn’t that be breaking the law?
What part of this do you see as being stupid or dishonest?
Yes he is.
He didn’t say he was for abortions.
For crying out loud! No one believes that women should be thrown in jail for abortions. If abortions are not legal we need to go after the ones who do the abortions!
It’s called a “vanity.” And the logic behind it is laughably bad. If doctors are put in prison for performing abortion, abortion will be illegal.
This Cruz sounds a lot like Obama...picking and choosing which laws to uphold. Illegal IS illegal.
If Trump said the sky was blue, Cruz would object. What a tool.
So, you support women having no consequences whatsoever for participating in an abortion?
That sounds pro-abortion to me.
Then Trump comes out for abortion, too.
He’s already walked back his idiotic statement.
Scalia and Rush have it right. Scalia: The pro-life movement needs to be opened door jamb by door jamb.
Limbaugh: The pro-life movement doesn’t need to win arguments, they need to change hearts.
IMO it is not so much about the law. The campaign to punish women who get an abortion is not an argument worth pursuing.
It’s basic economics. If there is no demand, there is no supply.
Savage just connected some dots on the brutalized female reporter, oh the horror of it all, Mercer the funder of the sCruz PAC is connected to the poor innocent maimed female reporter and Britebart.
No. If anyone other than a doctor performs the abortion, then it will be fine according to Cruz. The woman will be home free, and the helper will be fine provided they don’t have an MD.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.