03-31-2016, 12:07 PM
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Not Taylor
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary SW
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I don’t pay a ton of attention to this stuff but from what I read yesterday, the standard belief for anti-abortion campaigners is that the woman should never be punished, only the person performing the procedure.
From here - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/mar/30/us-election-2016-live-clinton-sanders-trump-cruz-kasich-campaign?page=with:block-56fc5be6e4b0c9ed7992f83b#liveblog-navigation
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Based on the amount of anti-abortion advocates who are coming out against Trump’s claim that he would seek punishment for women who access abortion if outlawed, it’s unsurprising how quickly the GOP candidate flipped his entire position and said that doctors performing abortions should be punished - not women who undergo them.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the national anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List, said in a statement: “We have never advocated, in any context, for the punishment of women who undergo abortion.
“As a convert to the pro-life movement, Mr. Trump sees the reality of the horror of abortion – the destruction of an innocent human life – which is legal in our country up until the moment of birth. But let us be clear: punishment is solely for the abortionist who profits off of the destruction of one life and the grave wounding of another,” said Dannenfelser.
NBC News reporter Ed Demaria posted transcripts of two Meet the Press interviews from previous elections with Mick Huckabee and Rick Santorum, both anti-abortion candidates, who decried punishment for women.
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Even anti-abortion groups are coming out against Donald Trump’s comments that women who choose abortions should be punished if abortion is outlawed.
“Mr. Trump’s comment today is completely out of touch with the pro-life movement and even more with women who have chosen such a sad thing as abortion,” said Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life, the biggest anti-abortion event in the world.
“Being pro-life means wanting what is best for the mother and the baby. Women who choose abortion often do so in desperation and then deeply regret such a decision. No pro-lifer would ever want to punish a woman who has chosen abortion. This is against the very nature of what we are about. We invite a woman who has gone down this route to consider paths to healing, not punishment.”
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Last edited by Swift; 03-31-2016 at 12:10 PM.
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