Well, I agree that Trump’s off the cuff remark was a disaster - but only because it exposed for all the world to see the hypocrisy of The Conservative Movement™ and its phony “pro-life” platform.
OBVIOUSLY, if abortion is murder, and if the only actor able to give the kill order is the woman, then the woman is the murderer. If you want to make abortion murder (which is already a crime), then you have to punish the murderer.
Since almost no official “pro-life” people want this, and since he who says “A” says “B”, it’s quite clear that the pro-life activist movement isn’t serious. The “murder” here is a metaphor. You must reach the same conclusion about the Catholic bishops who condemn the guys who kill abortionists - it’s not a REAL baby, because if it were - if somebody started killing three month old children and you killed him to stop him, you’d be a hero.
I don’t believe for a second that Trump is constructively pro-life. But by taking the arguments of the pro-life community to their logical conclusion, he’s made them look bad.
Jim Noble
That is the best post I’ve seen on this
But those with their own agendas don’t care about truth
A woman who causes her own abortion can currently be charged with practicing medicine without a license, IIRC. Right now it’s not about women having choices; it’s about “doctors” having a lucrative living off of lying to women and offering them deadly solutions at a time when many of them are not in their right mind and are easily influenced. Some women know what they’re doing and are too hard-hearted to care, but for many of them it’s mentally/emotionally about like a 12-year-old girl who gives in to the wishes of a 30-year-old man. That’s why we charge the 30-year-old and not the 12-year-old.