The Worst Part About Donald Trump's Abortion

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Mar 31, 2016 at 12:52 AM

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The Worst Part About Donald Trump's Abortion Flip-Flopping? It Won't Matter.
Media will care. Voters will not.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAR 30, 2016

It has not been the best of weeks for He, Trump. First, his campaign manager gets arrested for simple assault. Then he and his whole campaign have to spend a couple of days denying what is plainly visible on several videotapes, which makes them all look foolish. Then, on Wednesday, he has a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Ellis said the girl told police she punched another man who groped her.

Police also want to interview that man. The girl and a 19-year-old woman standing next to her in the crowd were taken to a hospital, treated and released. Ellis says the girl could face charges for punching the other man. On Wednesday, Janesville police released two photos of a man, presumably the suspect in the pepper spraying.

They are asking for the public's help in identifying the man, shown wearing a red Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" hat.

I mentioned this on the electric teevee machine with Chris Hayes Tuesday night. I think the Lewandowski arrest is a clear indication that local police and local law-enforcement are getting fed up with being caught in the middle of this nonsense; no matter how many times He, Trump professes his undying love for the men in blue, this stuff simply doesn't happen in and around any other campaign.

Local cops have the choice of looking like bystanders or fascists. Worse, they look like they're doing the dirty work for He, Trump and his campaign. Sooner or later, there's going to be either a gang brawl or a police riot.

Later on Wednesday, he spoke his mind on how pro-life he is.
Trump, who once supported abortion rights, now favors outlawing the procedure, which he called "a very serious problem," according to excerpts of an MSNBC town hall that is scheduled to air Wednesday evening.

"There has to be some form of punishment," Trump said in the town hall. Trump declined to specify how women should be punished if they underwent an illegal abortion.

The Republican front-runner conceded that outlawing the practice would lead some women to seek out abortions illegally. "Well, you go back to a position like they had where they would perhaps go to illegal places, but we have to ban it," Trump said during the town hall.

Is there a single conservative bluff he hasn't called? Is there a single conservative Precious that he hasn't shown a willingness to take deep into Mount Doom? Free trade? What about Youngstown? National defense? Why shouldn't the Saudis pay for their own protection?

And now this, the logical end to all anti-choice arguments and all anti-choice philosophy, but one that causes anti-choice politicians to hide behind the drapes out of sheer political cowardice. (You have to love a movement that is brave enough to shoot doctors from ambush, but chickens out on the obvious legal ramifications of what it says are its unshakable beliefs?)

I mean, seriously, look at this crawfishing from Tailgunner Ted Cruz's shop, and Cruz is the guy claiming he has God's unlisted number.

Other candidates in the race for president immediately jumped on Trump's comments. Brian Phillips, an aide on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign, returned to Cruz's common line of attack that Trump isn't a true social conservative.

And you will note that moderate John Kasich takes a similar dive.
Well, it's rape, incest and the life of the mother, and you build regulations from there. You have to be very careful in the way you do it.

Every one of these three guys wants to do away with the right to choose—And with the right to privacy from which the right to choose is derived. As we see in the assault on contraceptives, the real target always has been Griswold and not Roe—but they want to do it without suffering any political consequences. Tough. You sound like idiots.

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