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In reply to the discussion: "NO": The Second Part of Trump's Answer That Got Audible Gasps From the Audience [View all]Zambero
(8,985 posts)49. He adeptly allowed Trump to hang himself
Not from any ideological posture, but by insisting that those questions be answered. If the existing right to abortion is nullified and laws are enacted to make it illegal, then specific penalties would also ensue, or it is not a serious undertaking, merely symbolic. Tough guy Trump was in a bind. He could not come off insisting that he was "pro-life" (not that he actually cares about this issue one way or another), wanting anti-abortion laws enacted to make it illegal, and then back down like some sort of paper tiger when it came to the question of punishment. The alternative answer would have been voluntary compliance, not a winner with Evangelicals that Trump is courting.
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"NO": The Second Part of Trump's Answer That Got Audible Gasps From the Audience [View all]
kpete
Mar 2016
OP
not that i agree with punishing any abortion however her body her choice remember?
saturnsring
Mar 2016
#8
the desicion to abort is hers and hers alone - urged or not it is still she that makes that desicion
saturnsring
Apr 2016
#95
Does the man own the woman? If not, then why should he be punished under Trump's law?
Democat
Mar 2016
#9
but in the scenario being discussed, the woman does NOT have the ability to make their own decison
Skittles
Mar 2016
#72
I guess CNN didn't see fit to print that. Perhaps because its corporate owners are patriarchal...
PatrickforO
Mar 2016
#33
What if she had the abortion because he kicked her to the curb when he found out she was pregnant
ToxMarz
Mar 2016
#35
In your scenario, the man would be guilty whether or not he's the biological father
Jim Lane
Mar 2016
#73
the best thing that has happened for democrats in a while is Trump and his uncontrollable mouth
beachbum bob
Mar 2016
#14
Our society operates for the wealthy. Need an abortion? Got money for a European vacation? /nt
NCjack
Mar 2016
#32
Just Wait--The Whack Jobs Will Propose Pregnancy Test Controls At International Airports
Vogon_Glory
Mar 2016
#47
The Trumpster Only Said What The Anti-Abortion Fanatics Want To Do If Roe vs Wade Goes Down
Vogon_Glory
Mar 2016
#46
The term used to be: "She got herself pregnant." See? How can the guy be at fault?
Hekate
Mar 2016
#52
Discrimination against women is still the first and foremost group being treated unequally globally
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#66
So, if all the GOP idiots believe in "smaller government"… Why do they insist on taking away a
world wide wally
Mar 2016
#68
This puritanical view of sex and women and men is going to be our undoing...
whereisjustice
Mar 2016
#75