Posted on 04/21/2016 10:32:44 AM PDT by writer33
Donald Trump said Thursday he would change the Republican Party platform's position on abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Trump made the remarks during a town hall on the "Today" show on NBC on Thursday morning when host Savannah Guthrie asked him about abortion exceptions.
"The Republican platform every four years has a provision that states that the right of the unborn child should not be infringed," Guthrie said. "And it makes no exceptions for rape, for incest, for the life of the mother. Would you want to change the Republican platform to include the (abortion) exceptions that you have?"
"Yes, I would. Yes, I would. Absolutely," Trump said. "For the three exceptions, I would."
Currently, the Republican platform abortion policy reads: "We assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed."
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A convenient shibboleth whenever they need to do some more fast, noist fundraising. That's all it's ever been to the GOPe grandees.
Or just get rid of it altogether...
Trump is looking ahead to winning California. So now he espouses California values.
Then if in the general if he thinks he really could win california - he will abandon that entire messy “wall” business.
In the 2005 book “Essential Ronald Reagan,” writer Lee Edwards points out that Reagan felt duped into signing the measure because his legal advisors told him it would leave the vast majority of abortions illegal.
He writes that Reagan came to “deeply” regret signing the bill.
In a period before Roe v. Wade, Reagan didn’t have the advantage of knowing that abortion advocates and courts would misuse the health exception in the bill to allow virtually all abortions to become legal. That wasn’t Reagan’s intent at all, despite Creswell’s presentation of Reagan as an abortion advocate whom pro-life voters would distrust.
Reagan’s most able biographer, Lou Cannon, writes that Reagan have never really grappled with the issue of abortion, but that he experienced regret as soon as 1968 over signing the bill.
Reagan said that “those were awful weeks” when he realized the fallout from the legislation and that he would never have signed the bill if he had “been a more experienced governor.”
http://www.lifenews.com/2008/03/11/nat-3790/
Fair enough.
You're looking at this all wrong. IT'S MUCH BETTER THAN HAVING HILLARY!!!!!
Haven't you gotten the directive from the site masters?
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Tend to agree. Roe v. Wade was a legal travesty.
Like the gun-grabbing Democrats patiently nibbling away at the 2nd, “incrementalism”: you take small bites. Something is better than nothing.
Trump wants to defund Planned Parenthood. Congress has done nothing, although there is a rational relationship can be show in such a law to a legitimate state purpose. There is no fundamental right for a mother to kill her baby.
Begin by banning third-trimester abortions and the particularly odious partial birth abortions, Trump opposes both, and that’s a good first day.
Is the issue murdering millions of children in the womb, or murdering millions of children with invasive procedures rather than flushing then down the toilet ?
Getting rid of 90+ percent of abortions is leftist?
Everyone knows this is Trump’s position. ( I agree with Trump on this) These two issues today is all Cruz has left to gin up voter turnout against the ‘satanic’ Trump...
Why not change it, it’s always been nothing but window dressing. No candidate who’s won the nomination in the last 40 years didn’t have the exceptions and all called themselves “pro-life”. They’re all chicksh*t to say no abortion for any reason because they will not get the nomination. The “official platform” says one thing. The candidates always say another.
Must be getting close to the general election.
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This has been his position all along.
You’re seeing the True Trump™ today.
Reagan signed a law right after he was elected, that he was told to sign. He soon realized what a mistake he made, and that he shouldn’t sign laws he did understand. By the time he ran for president, he was clear where he stood. In 1966, abortion was a “new” issue, people, like Reagan weren’t familiar with. In 2016, this issue has been out front for a long time.
Kill the innocent for the crimes of another? If it’s a life then it should be protected. Trump seems to not be all that interested in protecting the weak an innocent, seems he might be more interested in having a really hot piece of a$$.
“Don’t cha know, all the “new” Republicans, the ones who jumped on board of hating the establishment, say these little social matters, such as baby murder and perverts going into bathrooms with females, are just side issues? “
When Bush junior took office he had a Republican Congress. House, Senate, Presidency, all in Republican hands.
How’d that work out for ya? Get any of your issues addressed?
Sensible position. Of course many here will scream that Trump is a liberal
Donald Trump took 5 different positions on abortion in 3 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/03/donald-trumps-ever-shifting-positions-on-abortion/
“This guy just doesn’t get it. This alone makes him unsupportable to millions of Pro-Life Republicans”
No worries, he will pick up all those Democrats who were supposed to cross over to Romney. Funny, in the end it wasn’t the GOP that destroyed the Republican Party, It was the candidate that now appears to support a moderate republican platform.
The exceptions aren't the issue here - it's Trump's ability to change on the fly so he went from pro-abortion, not willing to stop partial birth abortion, to being pro-life, to punishing women to these exceptions.
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