Trump Criminal Trials

Originally posted by Lomu: ↑

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11333472/trump-abortions-punishment-women

Donald Trump said Wednesday that "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who have abortions. He walked that statement back dramatically just hours later, but not before causing a huge media firestorm.
Trump was talking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews for a pretaped town hall in Wisconsin to be aired Wednesday night, according to Bloomberg, which posted excerpts of the interview. MSNBC's Irin Carmon also tweeted more complete rough transcript excerpts.
Matthews repeatedly pressed Trump on his anti-abortion views and asked if women should be criminally punished if abortion were outlawed in the US.
Trump hedged at first: "Well, people in certain parts of the Republican Party, and conservative Republicans, would say, ‘Yes, it should be punished.'"
"How do you ban abortion?" Matthews asked. "How do you actually do it?"
"You'll go back to a position like they had, where people perhaps will go to illegal places," Trump said. "But we have to ban it."

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So he's never said he wants a blanket ban then, i didn't think so.

I see you didn't post the part where the article logically acknowledges it wasn't clear what Trump mean't when he said " but we have to ban it " and if you listen to the interview it's quite clear that what he mean't by we have to ban it actually mean't.

" It's not totally clear what he means by this, but it sounds like he's saying there is a moral obligation to ban abortion, even though women would still seek alternative and often dangerous procedures like they did before Roe v. Wade.) "

This interview was also back in 2016 so it's old and things have happened since then.

Since then Scotus has rightly overturned Roe v Wade because it was clearly unconstitutional and now because the Constitution is actually being upheld on this particular issue it's up to the voters of each state to decide what the law will be and Trump embraces that and respects the right of the people in each state to make up their own mind on the matter as it should be under the US constitution.

The video also shows he clearly not on the extreme end of the Republican party as he said theres parts of the party that think like that, i think the interview also shows had bad the interviewer is, the journalist is aggressive towards trump, interupts him and badgers him and thats a big reason it's not clear what Trump actually mean't when he said we have to ban it.