Pence: Trump will tap justices to overturn abortion law

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Detroit News

Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence campaigned in socially conservative west Michigan Thursday, reassuring a crowd here that Donald Trump will appoint Supreme Court justices focused on overturning four decades of abortion rights rulings if he’s elected president.

The U.S. Supreme Court has four Republican-nominated justices and four Democrat-appointed justices since the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in mid-February. In May, Trump released a list of 11 potential nominees, including a Michigan Supreme Court justice and a U.S. Court of Appeals judge from Michigan, whom he said reflect “constitutional principles I value.”

“If we appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court as Donald Trump intends to do, I believe we will see Roe v. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs,” Pence said during a town hall-style event at the DeltaPlex in suburban Grand Rapids. . .

Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/28/pence-trump-will-tap-justices-overturn-abortion-law/87678778/

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Think the stakes aren't high in this election?

Think again.

[PSPS]

1. Well, that wraps up the women's vote.

[TomCADem]

2. Many Women Are Also Anti-Choice

There women evangelicals.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Half the women's vote, gender is not the primary indicator of support for choice, Party

affiliation is. Also educational level, also religious affiliations. Gender wise it's about 50/50.

[TwilightZone]

9. There's been a gender gap for the past several years...

...and it's getting larger.



http://www.gallup.com/poll/183434/americans-choose-pro-choice-first-time-seven-years.aspx

[roamer65]

15. IMO male opinion on it is irrelevant.

It's a women's privacy and health issue.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. This is why Pence was chosen, it's the oldest

Trick in the GOP book. This is the only appeal they have to the Christian right.

[jpak]

5. Pense and Trump - Scum of the Earth Trademark

yup

[bekkilyn]

6. +1 (nt)

[hobbit709]

7. Donald Trump-A prime example of why they should allow retroactive abortions

As a friend of mine said once when she was arguing with the Operation Rescue crowd

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. From Gallup

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

50% think abortion should be legal in some circumstances

29% think abortion should be legal in ANY circumstance.

Only 19% think it should always be illegal.

Keep in mind that legal in some circumstances can be everything from rape/incest/life of the mother to people who think it should be legal only up to the third trimester.

[Rustyeye77]

10. Yeah...those coat hangers were so much fun.

Idiot

[Skittles]

11. no he won't

Pence, what an idiot

[smirkymonkey]

12. God, what a loathsome ticket.

[Wounded Bear]

13. I love how Republicans never pander....

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Wouldn't that be judicial activism?

[awoke_in_2003]

16. rec for exposure. nt

[jtuck004]

17. It's not gonna be a good hour when those letters are returned from the Supreme Court, and

he learns he can't fire them.