The abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America responded partly tongue-in-cheek to Trump’s comment that abortion laws should be left alone. “We have 28,000 soldiers on the line”, said Trump, who said that rather than fully reimbursing the U.S. for their defense “they pay us peanuts”. He called his comments on “Face the Nation” “perfect” and “so good”.
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In an excerpt broadcast on Friday on CBS, Trump said about abortion: “The laws are set”. “Then he will change the law through his judicial appointments and allow the states to protect the unborn”, she said.
The latest furor to surround Trump’s campaign began when he told Matthews there should be “some form of punishment” for women who get abortions if the procedure is outlawed, later adding that what the punishment would be would have to be determined. He walked away from that statement within hours amid bipartisan condemnation, saying if abortion was banned, it would be doctors, not women, facing punishment.
“None of the other candidates would have made that mistake”, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which supports anti-abortion legislation and candidates.
My personal answer to that question, just for the record, is that we ought to keep abortion legal.
Abortions are still fiercely opposed by many Republicans, four decades after the US Supreme Court affirmed its legality nationwide. Ted Cruz, is ahead by double digits in advance of Tuesday’s vote.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday night that he may have misspoken when he made controversial comments about abortion in an interview earlier this week.
Trump has been criticized by abortion supporters and opponents for not being clear about his position on the hot-button political issue.
Overshadowing the Republican race: a persistent effort by Trump’s rivals in the campaign and the party to force the nomination fight into the July convention – and the front-runner’s equivocations on whether he will be loyal to the GOP or bolt for an independent candidacy if he feels mistreated. But a different, broader measure of unemployment that includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part-time because they can not find full-time employment is at 9.8 percent.
“One of the primary reasons I changed (was) a friend of mine’s wife was pregnant, and he didn’t really want the baby”. He ends up having the baby and the baby is the apple of his eye. And you know, here’s a baby that wasn’t going to be let into life. He is at a town hall with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, and, after Matthews badgers him for a while, he finally answers the question.
“Yeah, we’re gonna look at that”.
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“They can take something you say and turn it around”. His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, this week was charged with simple battery, accused of grabbing a reporter’s arm. I said ‘nobody is going to be dying on the street if I’m president.’ … “I think it’s possible”. I was pained. I was pained when they show it …
