About Trump's suggestion that women go to jail for getting an abortion.
There's one question I like to see Trump answer, either posed by an interviewer or at a townhall. Obviously only a few people get to ask questions at a Trump townhall event, so to be selected to ask a question a lot of covert pro-choice people would have to go to them to have a chance of being selected.
The question would begin by a comment hopefully getting him to let his guard down, obviously an effusive complement about how much they agree with him on everything. Then to the nitty-gritty Trump-trap.
"Mr. Trump, I admire your courage in being so direct in expressing your belief in the importance of protecting the lives of unborn children. Because these are unborn human beings, wouldn't you agree that women who get abortions, and the doctors and nurses who commit this act, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In order words they should be tried for premeditated murder, and if found guilty recieve the same punishment as any other murderer or accessory to murder?”
I doubt this audience member would get a follow-up. However an interviewer might. I'd like him to answer when he considers human life to begin: at conception, after implantation, or at some specific later point in embryonic or fetal development.
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This would open questions about what he thinks of various types of contraception including the morning after pill. It would also demonstrate to some extent how much he knows about reproductive biology. Does he even know the difference between an embryo and a fetus, let alone a zygote from a blastocyst?
“Trump, is it okay for a woman to use the morning after pill to murder a morula?” That’s the fertilized egg before it divides in two and becomes a blastocyst, and implants in the uterus.
Okay, I’m showing off my own knowledge of biology. But I know many Daily Kos readers, and most all pro-choice advocates know all about reproduction from the bedroom to the bassinet.
Let’s see how Trump wiggles out of this, and I am certain he will. His supporters will buy every word this snake oil salesman has to say.
