Trump says “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, later in the day issues statement saying he wouldn’t punish women
By Dave Andrusko
Donald Trump and Chris Matthews
The full program will be aired tonight. But when Trump said (in response to a hypothetical about what he would do if abortion was no longer legal) “there has to be some form of punishment, yeah” for women who have abortions, MSNBC broke in its programming to air a clip from the exchange.
The position of Mr. Trump, a recent pro-life convert, as expressed to Matthews, is diametrically at odds with that of NRLC’s, the leader of the mainstream pro-life Movement.
NRLC’s objective is to save babies, to use legislation to stop abortionists, not punish women. As NRLC President Carol Tobias said today in a statement:
In adopting statutes prohibiting
the performance of abortions, National Right to Life has long opposed
the imposition of penalties on the woman on whom an abortion is
attempted or performed. Rather, penalties should be imposed against any
abortionist who would take the life of an unborn child in defiance of
statutes prohibiting abortions. National Right to Life-backed state and
federal legislation, such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection
Act and the Dismemberment Abortion Ban, is targeted at stopping
abortionists.
After the clip aired, Mr. Trump’s campaign issued a statement. It read
“If Congress were to pass
legislation making abortion illegal and the federal courts upheld this
legislation, or any state were permitted to ban abortion under state and
federal law, the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act
upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The
woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb. My position
has not changed — like Ronald Reagan, I am pro-life with exceptions.”
Source: NRLC News
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