Trump Unleashes An Abortion Disaster On Republicans

Trump tried to avoid the question on abortion, but what he would say outlined a vision of a reproductive police state with women as criminals.

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Trump Revealed His Dangerous Vision For The Criminalization Of Reproductive Rights

In an interview with Time, Donald Trump admitted that he will not stop states from monitoring pregnancies and prosecuting women who have abortions.

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In fact, Trump would not answer if he would sign a national abortion ban.

Transcript via Time:

 You think this issue should be left to the states. You've made that perfectly clear. Are you comfortable if states decide to punish women who access abortions after the procedure is banned? 

Trump: Are you talking about number of weeks? 

Yeah. Let’s say there’s a 15-week ban—

Trump: Again, that’s going to be—I don't have to be comfortable or uncomfortable. The states are going to make that decision. The states are going to have to be comfortable or uncomfortable, not me.

Do you think states should monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if they've gotten an abortion after the ban?

Trump: I think they might do that. Again, you'll have to speak to the individual states. Look, Roe v. Wade was all about bringing it back to the states. And that was a legal, as well as possibly in the hearts of some, in the minds of some, a moral decision. But it was largely a legal decision. Every legal scholar, Democrat, Republican, and other wanted that issue back at the states. You know, Roe v. Wade was always considered very bad law. Very bad. It was a very bad issue from a legal standpoint. People were amazed it lasted as long as it did. And what I was able to do is through the choice of some very good people who frankly were very courageous, the justices it turned out to be you know, the Republican—

States will decide if they're comfortable or not— 

Trump: Yeah the states— 

Prosecuting women for getting abortions after the ban. But are you comfortable with it? 

Trump: The states are going to say. It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It's totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions. And by the way, Texas is going to be different than Ohio. And Ohio is going to be different than Michigan. I see what's happening.

Trump thinks that as long he says that it is a states’ rights issue, he doesn't have to answer questions on the issue, but going back through years of polling, total or near total, abortion bans are not popular. Americans across the board want some level of national protection, so Trump's dodge is not as clever or as helpful to his campaign as he thinks it is.

Donald Trump revealed that he supports a reproductive rights police state where women can have their pregnancies monitored and be prosecuted for having an abortion depending on where they live.