I used to support very harsh punishments for women who have abortions a la beheading and other cruel punishment. But, I don't support those views now and support a large fine while abortion doctors should be tried for murder.
Just so we make this clear: This is not representative of a majority of Pro-Lifers.
What, the majority believes that women who get abortions should instead be hanged, drawn and quartered?
The question asked of Trump was a logical one. The answer Trump gave was a logical one, given the question.
The only reason to ban abortion is the fact that abortion kills a human being at a pre-birth phase of human development. That's the reason I'm pro-life. I really don't want to regulate other people's sex lives, and if they wanted to have multiple abortions as birth control I'd be OK with it if (A) abortion was something other than the taking of human life and (B) it wasn't on the taxpayer's dime. But abortion is the taking of a human life, and from that perspective, what is wrong with Donald Trump's answer?
Ted Cruz made me laugh. Mr. Pro-Lifer goes before the media essentially saying he doesn't want to punish women who get abortions. Really, now, if abortion is murder, why wouldn't there be punishment for one of the parties who made it possible? I'm sure that if Trump didn't suddenly outflank him on the absolutist side of the question, Ted would have called for Draconian penalties of his own.
Is it "extreme" to be pro-life now? Is it "extreme" to believe that human life begins at conception? I would ask those who disagree with that assertion just exactly where they believe human life DOES begin? In actuality, and not just in law. The nauseating thing about the Hillary Clintons of the world is that they dodge that question and refuse to answer it. Isn't it "extreme" to be unwilling to define where, exactly, human life begins?
