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What Do Presidential Candidates Think About Abortion

What Do Presidential Candidates Think About Abortion



I previously wrote a take on the candidates, but it was last year and pretty just about what I think of their hair. This take will be about what each current presidential candidate think about abortion. It won't include those who dropped out. I'm taking the info from procon.org. You can pretty much look it up there, but I want to write a take, so...


#1 Should abortion be legal?


Hillary Clinton: Pro



"I believe we need to protect access to safe and legal abortion, not just in principle but in practice. Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all. Not when patients and providers have to endure harassment and intimidation just to walk in to a health center. Not when, not when making an appointment means taking time off from work, finding child care and driving halfway across your state. Not when providers are required by state law to recite misleading information to women in order to shame and scare them. And not as long as we have laws on the book like the Hyde Amendment, making it harder for low-income women to exercise their full rights."


(Well said!)


Ben Carson: Con


"CHUCK TODD: Definitively, do you want to see Roe v. Wade overturned?


DR. BEN CARSON: Ultimately, I would love to see it overturned."


( C'mon! You're a doctor, man! You know what'll happen better than all of us.)


Bernie Sanders: Pro


"We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.


We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and physician to make, not the government."


(Agreed!)


Ted Cruz: Con (in big red letters)


"Today marks the dark anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that overturned a Texas law that prohibited abortion on demand. Since that 1973 ruling, more than 55 million lives have been lost to abortion.


Defending life, at its core, includes protecting both the unborn child and his or her mother from an irreversible injustice…


I have been honored to defend the dignity of human life, helping successfully defend the federal Partial Birth Abortion Act, state parental notification laws, and Texas's law prohibiting state funds for groups that provide abortions.


No right is more precious and fundamental than the right to life, and any just society should protect that right at every stage, from conception to natural death."


Apparently, he also said: ''Questions about Mourdock Rape Comment are 'An unfortunate distraction from the issues that matter,'" and "I think that every human life is a precious gift from God and should be protected in law from conception until natural death.''


(If real life had a rewind button, I'd love to see this guy elected as PROTUS just to see the catastrophe that would follow. Man, it would be a total dystopian movie.)


Marco Rubio: Con


"KELLY: You don't favor a rape and incest exception?


RUBIO: I have never said that. And I have never advocated that. What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States...


And let me go further. I believe that every single human being is entitled to the protection of our laws, whether they can vote or not. Whether they can speak or not. Whether they can hire a lawyer or not. Whether they have a birth certificate or not. And I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live."


And he also said "I believe that Roe v. Wade was not only morally wrong, but it was a poorly decided legal precedent and should be overturned."


(Only like, %1 better than Cruz. Though I realized he seems to think he's a Supreme Court Justice and never answered the question that whether he was in favor of a rape and incest exception. You know what was a poorly decided legal predecent? Baker v. Nelson.)


John Kasich: Not Clearly Pro or Con


"There are restrictions that we put in, we've done a lot of things in Ohio effecting abortions after 20 weeks, but until that law [Roe v. Wade] changes, that's the law. If the court makes a ruling, they make a ruling, but I think there are absolutely legitimate and constitutional restrictions that can be put on it."


(Talky-talky say-nothing. You're not answering the question, John.)


Donald Trump: ¿Qué?


Former opinion:


"Trump: I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I hear people debating the subject, but, you still, I just believe in choice.


Tim Russert: But you would not ban it?


Trump: No."


Current opinion:


"And I am pro-life. And if you look at the question, I was in business. They asked me a question as to pro-life or choice. And I said if you let it run, that I hate the concept of abortion. I hate the concept of abortion. And then since then, I've very much evolved.


And what happened is friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted. And it wasn't aborted. And that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child. And I saw that. And I saw other instances.


And I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life."


(No comment. This is Donald Trump, after all.)

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