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Trump prefers a national 16-week abortion ban. He allegedly told his inner circle that his reasoning is partially motivated by the appealing roundness of the number 16. "It's even. It's exactly four months," he said.

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He allegedly told his inner circle that his reasoning is partially motivated by the appealing roundness of the number 16. "It's even. It's exactly four months," he said.

That's about the level of thought I would expect from the moron.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-16 12:45 PM | Reply

Of course, 93 percent of all abortions are already at 13 weeks or less, as women are not the irresponsible "baby killers" that Big Government Republicans make them out to be.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-16 12:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#2

So are you for or against Trump's proposal?

Seems reasonable to me.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-16 02:49 PM | Reply

It's even?

As in even vs odd?

16 weeks. 4 months.

But what about days?

If your 4 months are from May - August or October-January it's 123 days, definitely not even.

Kill the woman!!

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-16 03:36 PM | Reply

Seems reasonable to me.
#3 | POSTED BY 1LUMPER2

Who gives a shht what you think.

Abortion should be completely up to the mother. No exceptions.

Not politicians, pundits or complete strangers.

The potential life within her shouldn't have more rights than she does.

Also. Facts prove abortions done in later stages of pregnancy are due to health issues for the fetus or the mother.

It takes absolute ghouls to make the lives of pregnant women worse by forcing them to also deal with the ignorance of random yahoos and their brain dead politicians.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-16 03:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#3 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

How bout you keep your women the f out of our country. Let them drop those slope embryos inside --------- where they belong.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-16 03:48 PM | Reply

- Seems reasonable to me.

#3 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Of course, Big Gov intervening in women's health care when the fact is the only reason they do so is for political purposes; for a social election issue to run on, not because there is a problem with a large percent of women having late abortions.

btw, did you know that if you really have nothing useful or intelligent to say, you aren't required to post?

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-16 04:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#3
Are you a woman of child bearing age?

What, no? You are an old white guy, right?

Then who gives a phuek what you think sounds reasonable.

#8 | Posted by Wardog at 2024-02-16 04:09 PM | Reply

You are an old white guy, right?

He wishes.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-16 04:14 PM | Reply

"Trump prefers a national 16-week abortion ban. He allegedly told his inner circle that his reasoning is partially motivated by the appealing roundness of the number 16. "It's even. It's exactly four months," he said."

Nope, Trump can't just snap his fingers and change his stance on abortion. He ran on banning abortion and promised to appointed conservative judges who would make that happen, and he did. Up until a few months ago he was bragging about that fact, but now that he sees his anti-abortion stance is losing him women voters in large numbers, he is trying to back track. Don't let him:

MATTHEWS: You said you're pro-life.

TRUMP: I am pro-life.

MATTHEWS: That means banning abortion.

TRUMP: With exceptions. I am pro-life. I have not determined what the punishment would be [for women who go on to have abortions illegally]

.washingtonmonthly.com

Video of the interview:

MSNBC's Chris Matthews presses GOP front-runner Donald Trump on women's reproductive rights, urging him to explain what legal ramifications he believes a woman should face if she has an abortion.

www.youtube.com

#10 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-16 04:28 PM | Reply

So are you for or against Trump's proposal? Seems reasonable to me. #3 | Posted by oneironaut

Eff anyone who thinks they have the right to intrude into the most intimate aspects of someone else's life to tell them how they can protect their own health and well-being. Especially paid Russian trolls.

#11 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-16 07:08 PM | Reply

So Trump is suddenly prochoice? Lol!
I'll call it a win if the MAGAT cult follows him on this one..

#12 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-02-16 08:03 PM | Reply

So Trump is suddenly prochoice? Lol!
I'll call it a win if the MAGAT cult follows him on this one.. #12 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

Not only that; now he's pro-Ukraine. drudge.com

Happened right around the time that Biden pointed out Trump likes to kneel to Putin.

The MAGAts will get whiplash from switching their positions.

#13 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-16 11:32 PM | Reply

Let's hope he does an about-face on NATO to once he sees this ad:

Victor Shi
@Victorshi2020

Holy ---: The Biden campaign just released a new ad that brutally slams Donald Trump for being the only one who promises to "walk away from NATO" & gives "Putin the green light to attack America's allies." THIS is how it's done. Such a good & powerful ad. Please watch/share

twitter.com

#14 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-16 11:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Just so we're clear, Trump's 16-week federal abortion ban wouldn't make Trump pro-choice.

Such a ban would force pregnant women to carry their fetuses to term after 16 weeks, even in states that have no restrictions on abortions. States that currently outright prohibit abortion would still be allowed to do so.

So the federal abortion ban's only purpose is to restrict choice, not expand it.

#15 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-17 09:48 AM | Reply

So are you for or against Trump's proposal?

Seems reasonable to me.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut

Trusting a single word out of trump's mouth is unreasonable to anyone with a brain.

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-17 11:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Except that 16 weeks, 112 days, is not exactly four consecutive months. Ever. lol

Not even starting in Feb with 28 days, the least you can manage four months to be is 120 days.

Not even four consecutive February's, because leap year makes it 113, not 112.

And yet, no doubt the argument will be made Trump is still right because if you take February in years one, two, three and five, he's right. So a 16 week, 4 month pregnancy across 5 years. Abortion during that time frame, is okay.

So any child under 5 it's cool to, ya know, "off with their head" ... colloquially speaking.

#17 | Posted by gavaster at 2024-02-17 11:25 AM | Reply

"It's even"

Thanks for the medical insight Dr. Dementia, no ---- all the way off.

The most personal medical decision a woman can make IS NONE OF YOUR ------- BUSINESS.

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-17 11:31 AM | Reply

My response is a question which no one can or will answer

Since the SC said the right to an abortion is not truly a right under what authority can congress regulate abortion?

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-17 11:39 AM | Reply

"It's even. It's exactly four months," he said.

That's also odd.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-17 12:08 PM | Reply

[...]Since the SC said the right to an abortion is not truly a right under what authority can congress regulate abortion? #19 | Posted by truthhurts

I don't get your question. The fact that it isn't a right under the federal constitution means that feds can regulate it to their hearts' content. See, e.g., en.wikipedia.org Wickard v. Filburn, where SCOTUS said the feds can prohibit farmers from growing their own wheat to feed heir livestock.

#21 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-17 12:21 PM | Reply

It is a very simple question and is not answered by Wickard. To regulate abortion, abortion must fall under Congress' power to regulate something. Dobbs found that abortion (aka the right to privacy) does not exist. Therefore, since it does not exist it is an action that can be regulated by the states. Since it is not a right the federal government cannot regulate the state's enforcement (i.e. protect) of a "right".

Abortion is decidedly not interstate commerce nor is it interstate commerce under any reasonable understanding of interstate commerce.

Abortion will not fall under tax and spend authority as abortion will not be federally funded.

What authority does Congress possess to regulate abortion?

#22 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-17 01:01 PM | Reply

Hint: There is none

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-17 01:02 PM | Reply

Hint: There is none #23 | Posted by truthhurts

The fact that it is not a right means that the feds can regulate it. For instance, the feds can regulate pretty much anything they want under the commerce clause if SCOTUS feels like letting them do so. So the feds can say that we need more people, and prohibit abortion (just like they can say we need less wheat under Wickard and prohibit farmers from sowing their fields) under the commerce clause.

If you're genuinely curious, and not just trying to argue your point, you can find a fairly extensive discussion of various congressional authority for abortion regulation from the Congressional Research Service. crsreports.congress.gov

At the end of the day, though, it comes down to SCOTUS will let the Talibaptists do what they want. That's the way our tripartite system of government works and what the people voted for as they helped elect Republicans to the presidency for the last 50 years.

#24 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-17 01:24 PM | Reply

Such a ban would force pregnant women to carry their fetuses to term after 16 weeks, even in states that have no restrictions on abortions. States that currently outright prohibit abortion would still be allowed to do so.

Sounds like to something that would totally sink him come November.......

I don't believe this is something he'll want to talk about.

#25 | Posted by brass30 at 2024-02-17 02:14 PM | Reply

Sounds like to something that would totally sink him come November....... I don't believe this is something he'll want to talk about. #25 | Posted by brass30

Yeah, Hair Furor is trying to show that he has a more moderate position. But he's the one who created the mess to begin with.

Pro-choice voters would have to be complete idiots to buy this, but many of them have been dumb enough to vote Republican in the past and swing SCOTUS. So, maybe TrumptyDumpty really does have his finger on the pulse of the morons.

#26 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-17 02:42 PM | Reply

"Not even four consecutive February's, because leap year makes it 113, not 112."

You are WRONG! There will be no leap year at the turn of the next century.

Isn't pedantry fun?

#27 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-02-18 10:21 AM | Reply

you'd know swastika lad.

#28 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-02-18 05:46 PM | Reply

#27 Sentinel

Haha!! Now that you say it I do remember hearing Dr. Tyson on my random Instagram scrolling talk about this! So dumb of me. Trump was right about everything! lol The man is a genius ya know!

I wonder if that's why he's so bloated and fat? All that fuel for the amount of gaslighting he does has to come from somewhere.

#29 | Posted by gavaster at 2024-02-18 08:48 PM | Reply

Roe v Wade was only good for 12 weeks, the rest was slippery sloped until a screeching noise at partial-birth then feathered that throttle back just enough to stop the screeching.
the same way I drive my cars and torque fasteners, listen for the screech then back off a little.

#30 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-02-18 09:06 PM | Reply

"Roe v Wade was only good for 12 weeks"

Now it's not good for anything.

Like a dead fetus that can't be aborted, the cruelty is the point.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-18 09:27 PM | Reply

"you'd know swastika lad."

Suck it.

#32 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-02-18 09:40 PM | Reply

Normally, your due date is 280 days (40 weeks or about 10 months -- also known as 10 lunar months) from the first day of your last period.

Women are on lunar time

#33 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-02-18 11:12 PM | Reply

Like you've ever kissed a girl. It is to laugh.

#34 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-18 11:20 PM | Reply

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