Here's what Paul said two years ago on CNN:
Well, I think that once again puts things in too small of a box. What I would say is that there are thousands of exceptions. You know, I'm a physician and every individual case is going to be different, and everything is going to be particular to that individual case and what's going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother.I would say that after birth, you know, we've decided that when life begins, we have decided that we don't have exceptions for one- day-old or six-month-olds. We don't ask where they came from or how they came into being, but it is more complicated because the rest of it depends on the definition of when life comes in. So, I don't think it's a simple as checking box and saying exceptions or no exceptions.
I've been there at the beginning of life. I've held one-pound babies in my hand that I examined their eyes. I've been there at the end of life.
And there are a lot of decisions that are made privately by families and their doctors that really won't -- the law won't apply to, but I think it's important that we not be flippant one way or the other and pigeon hole and say, oh, this person doesn't believe in any sort of discussion between family. And so, I don't know if there's a simple way to put me in a category on any of that.
That line about "what's going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother," is simply another way of saying whether or not it's convenient.
My hunch is that what Paul really meant by today's remarks is that he wishes he wasn't asked about abortion because he's worried that he will slip up on the responses he's practiced and people will find out he's pro-choice just like his father.
I don’t trust him any further than I could throw him.
” My hunch is that what Paul really meant by today’s remarks is that he wishes he wasn’t asked about abortion because he’s worried that he will slip up on the responses”
I’ll take your last sentence for $400, Alex.