They should ask Henri!
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Yep, thatās the GOP front runner for the President of the United States of America.
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So if it were a crime, would it not follow that there would have to be punishment of some kind? Thatās really all that makes something a crime and not just a taboo. Thatās not to say that; that would be a stupid-ass law to create, but that was the question.
Perhaps the punishment could be āHard Laborā
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Isnāt this just the logical conclusion of a ban on abortion? The alternative is that abortion is illegal, but there are no penalties for conspiring to commit a crime. The second statement where he says that women who procure illegal abortions are just victims isnāt internally consistent. Under this scheme, they could be victims in a way, but they would still also be criminals unless they were coerced into having an illegal abortion.
In actuality, the way I see it those women would be victims of an unjust law. My own opinion is that abortion should be freely available within limitations based on gestation, but that those limitations could be overridden in certain circumstances and there should be wide powers of discretion for the woman and her clinician. My point is that this isnāt really news. The position is implied in any ban on abortion. And if you think we should ban things but not have any penalties for breaking the bans, then I think you donāt know how laws work. But Iām not a lawyer.
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āFive-time draft dodgerā
Uh, what?
That list has many dubious names on it:
Mittens Romney, Dickface Cheney, George W. Bush etcā¦ All good GOP folks.
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Itās possible to ban abortions without punishing the person who was pregnant.
For example, you generally donāt punish (legally speaking) a minor for getting tattooed. You punish the person who tattooed them.
Exactly where everyone got this idea that the law would only be meaningful if it was toward the recipient? 
Perhaps part of the rampant misconception that humanity has ever not had abortions?
In any case, itās terrifying to think that anyone is going to be punished for medically safe abortions (doing unlicensed ones in an area where licensed ones are reasonably available should continue to be illegal as they are today).
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In their defence, it was inevitable. After constantly declaring Bill Clinton a draft dodger, it was standard operating procedure that Republican candidates to follow would be draft dodgers.
You know, just like how Republicans demonized Carter for not getting rid of the deficits he inherited, and for big government in general. Naturally, once in power, Reagan ran up record deficits and grew the government, as did Bush I and II.
Republicans declared Obama not a Christian and declared him ineligible for the White House because his father was born in another country. They declared ObamaCare to be commie Marxist socialism. Then they nominated a Mormon whose father was born in Mexico, and who had successfully implemented āObamaCareā in his own state. Others claim that Obama wasnāt born in the US and that he was a communist. Now the leading ārealā Republican was born in Canada to a man who helped Castro gain power.
If Trump wins the election, you can expect him to nuke the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
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Itās so obviously news that Drumpfās anti-abortion allies disagreed with him immediately.
He flip-flopped in less than three hours.
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So if a minor is impregnated through rape or incest you punish the man responsible but keep the abortion ban? And forcing the kid to have the baby is simply declared ānot punishment?ā
Oh. Right. Rick Santorum tells us that a baby conceived through rape is a āgift from Godā that you āmust accept.ā
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That was the one. It was hearing the portion with his parents that really gave some clue as to Alexās thought processes: this is his version of rebellion, but within a parameter that letās him stay true to something that did get him out of a bad situation and gave him love (although not complete acceptance, of course.)
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Maybe Iām taking this wrong but Iām not arguing for medically safe abortions by qualified medical practitioners to be banned.
Iām simply stating that it is possible to ban abortions without punishing the person who received the abortion.
Abortion should be legal. It should be more legal than it is today. It should be federally funded for anyone who doesnāt have the money to pay for one and every hospital that receives federal funding should be required to perform them on request and no one should be allowed (or required) to pressure anyone to carry a pregnancy to term.
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Fair enough.
It would be possible to only punish the provider, there are other laws that work this way.
Prostitution is the first example I can think of, it varies from place to place whether only the prostitute can be arrested, only the ājohnā can be arrested, or whether both can be arrested.
It can easily be illegal to sell something but not illegal to buy it.
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He changed his āmind.ā
FTFY.
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Not to say he wouldnāt act on it, to pander to his audience, but I kind of doubt he actually believes many of those right-wing positions, or has ever thought about them, which is why he screws them up when he tries to parrot them. Heās chosen an audience that will never realize that, though.
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The future American Christian Taliban approves!
[/sarcasm, duh]
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Leave Ted Cruz out of this!
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