Let’s ask the question this way “If heroin is illegal, should we punish someone for buying it”. Again “Of course”.

Meanwhile,. I’m practicing filling out a ballot while holding my nose.

I’ve already read the transcript carefully. I have no idea why you keep trying to defend what Trump clearly said, because the fact that the question was a hypothetical is irrelevant to what his answer was and what was wrong with it. Candidates (or anyone in the public eye) need to be aware of hypotheticals and able to answer them. And when they do answer them, their answers mean something and are a window into their thought processes. If abortion were illegal, it does NOT follow that women who had them would have to be punished—as Trump’s post-consultation revised version of his own answer made very clear.

Chris Matthews went after him, demanding to know what he would do IF ABORTION WAS ILLEGAL. Trump said, logically, that if it were illegal, then the women should be punished.

He didn’t just jump in there and say “Oh, I think anyone who has an abortion should be punished!” which is how it’s being noised abroad to whip up the War on Women hysteria.

Granted, he was foolish to give an interview to Chris Matthews, and was woefully unprepared for the machine-gun style attack. But you have to actually, you know, listen to the audio to hear what the man said.

Yeah, I know, hopeless to even mention this.

You were born logical.

Your law school was merely polish… at best.

I’m sure you’re at least familiar with the argument that abortion is not murder, even if you strongly disagree with it. I’m not sure, therefore, why you say the answer that it is murder is simple or obvious. It rests, of course, on the definition of when individual human life begins, and is a profound moral and philosophical question, as well as a religious and medical one.

I try to keep it relatively quiet 🙂 .

It was a long time ago, right after college.

Thanks for the compliment on the logic.