This caused a chorus of furor from the GOP, Trump’s presidential opponents, countless pro-life/pro-family groups, and every leftist in America.
But what Trump said was a no-brainer.
Any thinking person understands that when something is legislated as a crime, there is a consequence if you commit the crime. If abortion is murder -- and it is -- the woman should be punished. When a murder takes place, all those who are party to the crime are charged with murder.
But see, the “pro-life movement” in this nation has made the woman into a victim. That’s right, they actually want us to believe that the woman who hires a paid assassin to murder her own child is, in fact, a victim herself.
There is something absurd about calling abortion the capital crime of murder (as pro-lifers and Christians rightly do), and then saying there should be no punishment for the person who hires a paid assassin to murder their own son or daughter. This moral schizophrenia is an insult to the very nature of justice.
Having stood outside abortion clinics for hundreds of hours ...
