Posted on 04/01/2016 4:29:09 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen
Donald Trump said Friday that he believes the laws regulating abortion should stay as they are, but he doesn't disagree with the proposition that abortion is murder.
The GOP frontrunner lit a fresh controversy this week with his shifting responses to a question on abortion policy. He said during an MSNBC town hall on Tuesday that he'd like to see the practice banned, and that women who undergo it should face "some form of punishment." But he quickly backtracked, explaining in a statement that while he believes it should be banned, the punishment should be levied on abortion providers, not the women seeking abortions.
Trump sought to clarify his position during an interview on Friday with "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson. The interview will air, in part, on Sunday's broadcast.
"A question was asked to me. And it was asked in a very hypothetical. And it was said, 'Illegal, illegal,'" Trump explained. "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."
Asked how he'd like to change the law to further restrict access to abortions, Trump replied, "The laws are set now on abortion and that's the way they're going to remain until they're changed."
"I would've preferred states' rights," he added. "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.
"I have my opinions on it, but I'd rather not comment on it," Trump replied.
"You said you were very pro-life," Dickerson followed up. "Pro-life means that...abortion is murder."
"I mean, I do have my opinions on it. I just don't think it's an appropriate forum," said Trump.
"But you don't disagree with that proposition, that it's murder?" Dickerson asked.
"No, I don't disagree with it," Trump eventually replied.
The back-and-forth over abortion wasn't the only political controversy involving Trump this week. He also stood by his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who's been charged with battery after allegedly grabbing a reporter's arm during a public event last month. And he suggested on Tuesday that he no longer feels bound by his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, complaining that the party has treated him "very unfairly."
Despite a chorus of critics assailing both moves, Trump told "Face the Nation" it hasn't been the worst week of his campaign.
"I think I've had many bad weeks and I've had many good weeks. I don't see this as the worst week in my campaign," he said. "But certainly, I've had some weeks, and you've been reporting on them, where that was the end. And then the next week, you see poll numbers where they went up and everybody's shocked."
"So yeah, people want to stop me because I'm leading by a lot," he added.
For more of the interview with Trump, tune into "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Check your local listings for airtimes. © 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Ted Screws is a fake and phony on abortion. After Trump was attacked by the Fox and the liberal media for saying the truth about abortion, Ted Screws weighed in and said a woman is NEVER AT FAULT in an abortion and should never be punished. Makes no difference if abortion is outlawed or not. Screws, in his dimwitted haste to belittle Trump stepped in it when he sided with pro-abortion advocates by saying women who murder their unborn deserve a hug and not any type of punishment. Ted Screws says exactly what he thinks an audience at that particular minute wants to hear.
yet if we do not get national security under control soon it will not matter since Islam does retroactive abortions of adults.
What do you think about this video in 1999?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOlXidHXRE
Which is followed up by this current commentary:
“I am not sure I have,” Trump said when asked if he’d ever asked God for forgiveness. “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.”
>>It would not be Donald-like to do so, even if the first attempts resulted in sticking his foot into it.
I think this proves that Donald works better when he refuses to admit that he was ever wrong, but instead just waits for a period of time and then says that he has changed his mind because he has discovered new facts.
In a sound-bite happy society, admitting that you are wrong is a bad idea. The Idiocracy never reads the whole story. In fact, the Idiocracy never READS anything.
They are referring to human beings being deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If the unborn are human beings, they would fall under them. The only way the unborn wouldn’t fall under them is if the unborn are not persons.
No you cannot take things out of context and then ascribe them to something else. “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is not referencing abortion. Do you think that “the pursuit of happiness” is referencing gay marriage? If so then you should be supporting gay marriage.
>>A better way to handle it would probably be, “I was happy when my wife told me she was pregnant and I am happy to have children.” Or, “I thought it was cute when my daughter came running up to me with this picture she drew in art class.” One thing that appears to be missing from the pro-life movement is an actual happiness to have children.
Good point and a very smart move. Just refuse to answer. It is kind of a “here’s a picture of bunny with a pancake on its head” move. You can’t win, so talk about your own children.
It’s referring to persons. It doesn’t define what type of persons. All people. If the unborn are people, it applies.
A take on it by Mike Huckabee:
Now I know one of the biggest battles going on in this city right now, and its a worthy battle and an important one defund Planned Parenthood, said Huckabee.
When I hear people act as if, if we could just defund Planned Parenthood, man, we could break our arms patting ourselves on the back for being such heroes of the life movement, I want to just remind you of something: for 42 years, we have lived under the notion that it is a human right and privilege to take the life of an unborn child, Huckabee added.
Heres what Id like to propose: that we do something far bolder than simply cut out the funding for one agency that provides abortions, because as important as that is, it doesnt end the nightmare, the scourge. It does not end this horrible, uncivilized savage behavior. It just moves it over to let someone else do it, he said.
Huckabee said as president, he would raise the question: Is the unborn child a person, is it just a blob of tissue?
And I believe with all my heart the answer to that question, we all know, it is a person, he added.
Huckabee said no one ever said, Im going to have a blob of tissue.
None of your daughters and daughters-in-law ever called you up and said, Congratulations. Guess what? Im going to have a blob of tissue. They called and said, Im going to have a baby, he said.
Im tired of hearing us say, oh maybe one day we can get a constitutional amendment, maybe we can get the courts to overturn Roe Wade. Ive got a better idea: Since it is a human being, we already have the constitutional protection. Its called the 5th Amendment that says that there will be due process before you deprive a person of life or liberty, Huckabee said.
As president, we will invoke the 5th and 14th Amendment. We will protect human life, he added.
Mike Huckabee is also incorrect about the 14th and 15th amendments if that’s what he is saying.
As I asked before and you have not answered do the words “pursuit of happiness” mean that gay marriage should be legal? Sounds like it to me based on your assumptions. Do you think now that the Supreme Court was correct in handing down a decision forcing all 50 states to recognize gay marriage? Misinterpretations can cut both ways.
There is little doubt that abortion and gay marriage are issues for each state to decide.
States' rights and powers do not supersede the laws of nature and nature's God, nor are they superior to the explicit equal protection requirements of the supreme law of the land, the Constitution of the United States.
I dont care if Donald Trump wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper
-- Ann Coulter on Twitter
Plus, I'm sure a few of his fans were will point out that Trump promised them two weeks ago that he would appoint Scalia type judges. Therefore it doesn't matter what he's saying this week, or anything he consistently said for 20 years before he ran for President (when he was militantly pro-abortion including even partial birth abortion).
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuge wall, that's what matters (though that won't happen, either)
Stephen A. Douglas "conservative" beliefs:
God's law < U.S. state laws
Yep.
As a Presidential candidate in 2008, Obama said over and over again that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that as President, he would never try to change that.
Obviously, if a politician says they believe something, it MUST be true, right?
Actually Roe left open the ability to regulate some abortions, such as late term abortions. It depends upon who gets appointed to the Supreme Court.
Trump has no idea who he would appoint, as he has not thought thru this or any other position.
Matthews did everything he could to catch Trump in make him look bad, Matthews is a sickening little piece of s*** viper and an utterly hostile interview with people he doesn’t like (or is tasted to be that way by his employer), so that has to be taken into consideration. Whether the interview was edited or not I have no idea, as I did not see it and I’d have to see both the non-edited and edited. If it was live and later edited, a person could see for themselves. If the live was taped and could be viewed in entirety as well as the edited one.
So you have evidence that there was no editing?
And in order to know the situation of various business ventures, one would need to see the books, final outcome, and all that stuff. I assume you’ve seen the detailed financial records of those? Or at least some kind of documentation? So you could bring links here or copy info so we could all see the lies, plus the times when Trump lied about them? TIA
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