As he backs off of his clear (if "in the middle of thinking about it") statement that, under the anti-abortion laws that he would (now) promulgate as President, women would be prosecuted for getting abortions.
Of course, his back-track that, instead, doctors would be criminally punished for providing abortions to women "victims" is hardly that much more of an improvement.
Kudos to the sometimes-dodgy Chris Matthews for very much pushing Trump to espouse his apparently still-inchoate opinions on the matter (such that they had to be partially retracted later). It would be nice to see what much-more-fundamentalist Ted Cruz would have to say on the matter.
Trump Backtracks: If Abortion Were Banned I’d Punish Providers, Not Women
Donald Trump reversed his position Wednesday on what should happen to women who seek abortions if they were outlawed in the U.S., first claiming women should face “some form of punishment” and later framing them as “victims” of doctors performing an “illegal act.”
