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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,212 posts)
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:26 PM Jul 2016

Roe v. Wade will be overturned if Trump wins, Pence says

Quite a bubble you live in Mike

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Thursday predicted that Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, would be overturned if Donald Trump is elected president.

“I’m pro-life and I don’t apologize for it,” he said during a town hall meeting here. “We’ll see Roe vs. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs.”

The comments — made in a conservative stronghold that strongly supported Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over Trump in the Michigan primary — were part of a broader argument Pence has been making on the stakes of the election: Voters need to consider that the next president will likely select multiple Supreme Court justices.

Pence said Trump would appoint strict constitutionalists in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

“While we’re choosing a president for the next four years, this next president will make decisions that will impact our Supreme Court for the next 40,” he said. “… Go tell your neighbors and your friends, for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment, for the sake of all our other God-given liberties, we must insure the next president appointing justices to the Supreme Court is Donald Trump.”


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/roe-v-wade-will-be-overturned-if-trump-wins-pence-says/ar-BBv08xz?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Roe v. Wade will be overturned if Trump wins, Pence says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2016 OP
Yes they will. There are some who believe that won't happen, but they are wrong still_one Jul 2016 #1
And some people think it's no big deal Johnny2X2X Jul 2016 #2
Just look at Pence's record on women DemonGoddess Jul 2016 #3
Pence is awful but bananakabob Jul 2016 #4
Lol! They must really... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2016 #5

DemonGoddess

(4,640 posts)
3. Just look at Pence's record on women
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:39 PM
Jul 2016

in Indiana. It's AWFUL. He's stated before he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.

 

bananakabob

(105 posts)
4. Pence is awful but
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:44 PM
Jul 2016

Pence is awful but it won't be overturned. The Republicans need it for a fundraising/wedge/GOTV drive.

They'll find other ways to weaken it and make it harder and harder to get women's care but they'll never got so far as to lose one of their biggest ways to drive the religious right vote.

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