Trump has laid down one of his worst comments of his campaign this week. He said that women need to be “punished” for having abortions. He is going further than the other Republicans by saying that abortion should be totally illegal.
He has flip-flopped on this issue before. When he was between his first and second marriages, one of his girlfriends came up pregnant. He talked about this on the Howard Stern show. His response was, “What are we going to do about this?” Because we are not a theocracy, his mistress had plenty of options available. She ended up having the baby and becoming the second Mrs. Trump. He said that he was proud of his then girlfriend, now wife, Melania Trump, for taking her birth control every day.
He wants to ban abortion and have women “punished” for getting illegal ones. He has since backed down on his statement saying that the doctors that perform abortions should face punishment. But, that’s still punishing the women by taking away the option of having an abortion. He kept saying “I don’t know” when asked specific questions about what the punishment should be.
This remark could mean bad results as the Wisconsin primary looms next week.
MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said:
“In President Trump’s world, no man in America would be able to say to his girlfriend upon discovering an accidental pregnancy, ‘What are we going to do about this?’ […] In Trump world, there would be no choice.”
The video of his full statement is below.
These idiotic comments have caused a drop in the polls. If Trump doesn’t get the delegates he needs, there may be a contested convention this summer. Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has endorsed Ted Cruz.
The whole fight over women’s health boils down to shaming women for their sexuality while absolving men of their actions.
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