Rachel is tearing Cruz (and Trump) on matters abortion

[malaise]

She's exposing Cruz's pro-life Chairman Newman who wants doctors executed. She is destroying all the RWs and their breathtaking hypocrisy - as if they aren't punishing women and their doctors right now.

[Jester Messiah]

1. She's laying it out mercilessly.

[malaise]

3. This is what I wrote yesterday re Trump's comments

The truth is that ReTHUGs are already punishing women while abortion is fugging legal. All the attacks against Planned Parenthood, closing down Abortion Clinics, Vaginal probes and defunding women's health are severe punishment.

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Trump did everyone a favor by using 'blunt language' to state exactly what RW pro-life people want for women. As Rachel is saying - Cruz's plans for women is way worse than anything Trump said yesterday.

Fuck all of them

[wcast]

8. That is the number 1 reason behind the Dump Trump movement

And the media is falling in line to protect themselves. The GOP can't survive their ideas being expressed in blunt, every day language. Trump says out loud what every other Repub says with a wink and a nod. They all support the same principals, they just don't want to articulate it out loud. You would think this would wake people up but with the complicit media, they will pretend only Trump wants to punish women, when as your post points out, they all want to punish women.

[malaise]

11. Yes indeed

but remember they are already punishing women

[Wilms]

2. And not Hillary?

Clinton willing to back a constitutional amendment restricting abortion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511614277

Amazing what 7 million dollars a year will do. Right, Rache?

[lordsummerisle]

5. The piece was about the Repub frontrunners' views on this n/t

[Wilms]

7. Apparently.

But I think Hillary's views need to be reported...rather than being misrepresented as women-friendly.

[TomCADem]

9. NARAL Pro-Choice America Endorsed Hillary Clinton

Per their endorsement:

"Hillary Clinton is that champion. She has spent her entire life leading on equal opportunity for women and families--as a private citizen, first lady, United States senator, and secretary of state. As president, Hillary Clinton will be a champion for all. That’s why NARAL Pro-Choice America is proud to endorse Hillary Clinton to become the next President of the United States."

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/2016/hillary-endorsement.html

I understand supporting Bernie, but trying to lump together Hillary, Trump and Cruz is a bit of a stretch.

[Wilms]

10. NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC

Read the fine print. The PAC. If I'm not mistaken, it is a Board of Directors that did the endorsing. They "voted".

Hillary and her spokesperson Maddow lumped Sanders with the Republicans. Here, I merely posted about what she said.

Don't look at me. Ask Hillary WTF is always going on with her. And why.

[world wide wally]

4. When will someone point out that Republicans know there have been abortions

since women starred getting pregnant? And it will always be that way.
The ONLY thing they resent is that they have been made safe (and legal).

[Kingofalldems]

6. Good. Cruz has been skating on this issue.

[malaise]

12. Here's a good read on the subject -Dawn Laguens-“Donald Trump just outed the anti-abortion movement"

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/31/donald-trump-abortion-remarks-biggest-campaign-crisis
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But there is also a school of thought that throughout the campaign Trump has merely been speaking in plain language what many hard right Republicans have been extolling in coded language for years. In 2012, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri, discussing pregnancy as a result of rape, infamously said: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”

Dawn Laguens, executive vice-president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, bracketed Trump with Republican rivals Cruz and John Kasich. “Donald Trump just outed the anti-abortion movement,” she said. “Let’s be clear: the GOP platform is about making abortion in this country illegal. Donald Trump said it, but Ted Cruz voted on it, on John Kasich has made it a reality for some women in Ohio.”

Cruz has voted to approve several abortion bans with no exception for rape victims, and Kasich has signed 16 abortion restrictions as governor of Ohio, including a measure to ban abortion after 20 weeks.

Trump has survived outpourings of rage before, for example over his comments on Mexicans and Muslims, with fulminations from the political and media establishment holding little sway over his largely white working-class support base. If anything, these have strengthened his anti-establishment credentials and hardened his followers’ resolve.

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No wonder the RNC were in full panic mode yesterday

[Vinca]

13. That was a great segment.

Cruz has been trying to use the Trump blather to make himself seem moderate and nothing could be more untrue.

[malaise]

14. Yep

Read the article at #12 - The Guardian nails it

[Gothmog]

15. Rachel did a great job on this issue