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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Did someone wind you up or something, because you are stuck on “St Cruz” as a reply to everything?
The conservative congress can't even cut funds for Planned Parenthood!
I call him 'St Cruz' because his followers want the President to be a religious leader and not a political one.
What is silly is thinking that running for President is running for Pastor and dealing with moral issues that the President has no control over.
The soul of the GOP is about protecting individual freedom and national sovereignty, not engaging in issues that have nothing to do with politics.
from TedCruz.org
https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/life-marriage-and-family/
Fought to take away taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood.
Led the charge on behalf of 13 states to successfully defend a federal law that bans partial birth abortion before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Advocated for an investigation into abortion practices in the U.S. to prevent the atrocities witnessed in Kermit Gosnell’s facility from ever happening again.
Joined 18 states in successfully defending the New Hampshire parental-notification law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Successfully defended Texas’s Rider 8, which prohibits state funds for groups that provide abortions.
Authored legislation and a constitutional amendment in the Senate to prevent federal courts from further interfering with any state’s authority to define marriage.
Introduced legislation to protect the right of states to define marriage, without intrusion by unelected federal judges.
Defended Texas’s marriage laws when a state court attempted to recognize a Vermont civil union.
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He would NOT veto any federal pro-life law, even personhood. Would anyone else? don’t think so. In fact, last time I checked DT didn’t even MENTION life on his site. That must not be an issue for him.
Thing is, Biblical consequence for child sacrifice is invasion and conquest. Other abominations coinciding with the moral fall of a nation were also addressed but seems human sacrifice is the bottom of the pit. So, build the wall but that will not delay the wrath of God. Only national repentance will delay it.
It was still being decided on a state by state level until he opened his big flytrap and stated his “evolution”. I don’t think he cared one way or the other, about sodomite “rights”, he just saw it as one more way to “fundamentally transform” (destroy) the nation. He doesn’t have principles, he has the goals his puppet masters tell him to have.
They want a religious leader, not a political one.
Isn't that what Glen Beck has been pushing in his defense of Cruz.
I was thinking about terrorism this afternoon. It has been stated that when the Muslim population hits 15% of any nation that that is the tipping point for their fanaticism to take over.
Why isn’t it the same for Christians? Why aren’t we fanatics for the Way, the Truth, and the Life?
What he stated is that it is a not a political issue, certainly not at the Federal level!
Amen, and I will wear it with pride in His Name.
-—I repeat what I wrote before: ou have a greater chance of being killed by an illegal alien than seeing a trans person in a public restroom. You have a greater chance your job is outsourced than seeing a trans person in a bathroom. I live in NYC - in Manhattan no less - and I have never seen one in a public bathroom.
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Dead on. I am in Chicago. I’ve seen ugly women in bathrooms, but I also know Denny Hastert was stalking young boys locker rooms.
Which concerns me more?
You are right on the money.
Since Trump thinks that education is one the federal governments top priorities and part of the agenda of the department of education is set by the executive branch (ala the Michele Obama school lunches); it might more than you think.
The executive office is also in direct command of the military (at least before Obama) and their policy on trans-gender nonsense doesn't need any pushing in the liberal direction. It's a matter of underlying character.
As President he could not do anything about abortion-no President can.
Most of what you have listed has to do with funding, not ending abortions.
And yet, Cruz would not punish the mother for killing the baby!
What can save the nation is a spiritual revival, which has nothing to do with the Presidency.
-—force Trump to have to go right and make him seem unelectable as a conservative. Either result is designed to weaken Trump.
The Establishment GOP don’t care about wining - they want to stop Trump by hook or crook
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We see this through the same prism.
They don’t care who is POTUS as long as their precious rice bowl isn’t kicked over.
They will back Hillary with millions. Well, they won’t “back her” but they will do everything they can to secretly make sure Trump does not win. They will attempt to make voters stay home on red meat issues that they as politicians have done NOTHING to fix, like bathrooms or wedding cakes.
You have the conservative party confused with the libertarian party. Conservatives have traditionally always tried to hold the line on moral issues.
Of course, it is self-evident that a president (within the bounds of the Constitution, which doesn’t stop Hussein) cannot pass decrees. But the office is a bully pulpit of great influence, just for starters, or it’s not anything at all.
And Congress, as we have seen, does pay attention to what the President desires, this one, for political reasons, if the president is a strong and popular one.
I would think that some pro-life women were forced or threatened into having abortions. I know that 25% of women who do have them develop PTSD and some commit suicide afterwards.
Stating the mother would not be punished when the laws are changed was a quick reaction and not thought out.
No worries though, if DT or hildabeast become president this discussion is moot.
His position is a leftist position, it is entirely honest to attack the position as a leftist one. Do you think it suddenly just became the conservative position, however imperfectly followed through?
The President doesn't have any say over what is taught in the schools.
And what has the conservative GOP Congress done about what Obama has done to the military regarding women in combat and other idiotic ideas?
Where is the bill by Cruz to stop it?
I wish I could have been there and request permission to copy and quote you. :)
He can state it all he wants, but while the left sees it differently, it is a federal position. The left has certainly tried to make it one.
He is discussing a personal moral view, not what his role as President would be.
When he stated that if abortions were made illegal and the mother would have to be punished, the pro-life movement had a fit.
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