Trump: Women Should Be “Punished” With Deadly Back Alley-Abortions In “Illegal Places”
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Republican front-runner Donald Trump tripled down on his flagrant misogyny in an interview today with MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews, fully abandoning his previously held pro-choice positions and endorsing a full ban on abortion. “There has to be some form of
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2. Trump turns subtext into text. He doesn't know how to talk in dog whistle or code & spells out bluntly implications of policy.
- Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) 30 March 2016
3. Bush talked about WMDs & spreading democracy. Trump says USA should kills enemies & "take the oil." Bush's subtext is Trump's text.
- Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) 30 March 2016
5. In the case of abortion, Trump isn't native to anti-abortion right & doesn't know lingo devised to hide horrifying implications of policy
- Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) 30 March 2016
6. But hiding behind a lot of supposed concern for fetal life is a desire to punished sexually active women. Trump turned subtext into text
- Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) 30 March 2016
Trump really has been upping the misogyny in the last week or so. Not sure how deliberate that is or just a natural product of who he is.
- Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) 30 March 2016
reminder that anti-abortion laws *already* punish women.
- Julianne Ross (@JulianneRoss) 30 March 2016
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the reason republicans are so angry about trump isn't his actual disgusting views
it's because he doesn't know how to subtly disguise said disgusting views to trick others the way the rest of the party has been passive-aggressively doing for so fucking long
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The abortion remarks are just today’s reminder that Trump’s entire platform is based on who he is. That will manifest in policy if elected.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) 30 March 2016
Typically, Republicans are really passionate about threatening women’s lives with abortion bans. Trump just did it casually, and carelessly.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) 30 March 2016
Given how much the abortion debate is about black and Latina women, Trump’s remarks should be examined as a promotion of mass incarceration.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) 30 March 2016
We take Trump’s misogyny for granted, but his suggestion that men bear no legal responsibility for abortions in his scenario is poisonous.
- Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) 30 March 2016
When can we put men in jail for the reckless & negligent mass murder of sperm, who if given a proper home could eventually become babies?
- Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) 30 March 2016
We know the best way to lower the abortion rate is free accessible reliable contraception. No major American prolife group ( ... )
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i can no longer be surprised by the extent of human shittiness.
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