Nancy Pelosi To Donald Trump: 'You Can't Be A Little Bit Pro-Life'
Source: Huff Post
Apr 9, 2024, 02:51 PM EDT
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called out Donald Trumps noncommittal stance on abortion access, accusing him of saying whatever he thinks will help him retake the presidency. He doesnt believe anything, the California Democrat said on MSNBCs Morning Joe show. He believes in his political survival, and thats what hes trying to accommodate. But you cant be a little bit pro-life. Youre there or youre not there.
Pelosis comments come a day after Trump posted a video on his Truth Social platform to boast about his role in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, a move that ended the constitutional right to an abortion. He indicated that hes happy leaving the issue up to individual states, creating a patchwork of abortion access around the country.
My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land in this case, the law of the state, said the presumptive GOP nominee for the White House.
The video, which arrived amid pressure to clarify his position on the matter, failed to address what Trump would do as president if Republicans take control of Congress and pass stringent nationwide abortion restrictions. His remarks were an obvious attempt to play both sides of the issue, Pelosi charged. He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are stupid, she said on the morning show.
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"The issue of women's right to choose is a democracy issue... When [Trump] said what he said yesterday, he either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are stupid... You can't be a little bit pro-life, you're there or you're not."
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poli-junkie
(1,006 posts)Forced birther or anti-choice.
The pro-life phrase is an easy out for the GOP Taliban.
What about the life of the woman?!!!
soldierant
(6,921 posts)You can be pro-some-lives and anti-others. The GOP is pro-human-male -life (and in some cases only pro-white-human-male life.) If they could figure out a way to reproduce without us, they'd kill us all.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)But that's only when I'm forced to boil it down to a one-word description.
We all know that this movement to deny women our reproductive freedoms is so much more than a one-word description.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Mysterian
(4,591 posts)but it was clumsy and poorly-worded. She should stop using the fascist terminology "pro-life," and it almost sounds like she's arguing it's better to be a complete and total abortion prohibitionist.
poli-junkie
(1,006 posts)Controlling women control womens ability to move about the world. White men do not want to share power with women.
calimary
(81,466 posts)they could get away with it.