Trump to throw spotlight on abortion in State of the Union

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump is telling conservative allies he wants to incorporate firm anti-abortion language into his State of the Union address Tuesday, and potentially include an anti-abortion figure among his list of invitees, according to four sources familiar with his plans

Trump sees an opening to energize his evangelical supporters and capture moderate voters who administration officials believe may be turned off by widespread coverage of New York’s newest abortion law, which allows for termination of some pregnancies after the 24-week mark for health reasons.

The issue is one of many the president will address in a Tuesday night speech, which aides say currently clocks in at about one hour. Although it comes amid an ongoing standoff with congressional Democrats over a wall Trump wants to build along the southern border, people familiar with its contents say it will range widely and include a call for bipartisanship.

Trump is even expected to deliver what one Republican close to the White House called a “warm and fuzzy” overture to his recent nemesis in the border wall fight, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who will be sitting a few feet behind the president atop the House chamber’s dais.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/31/trump-state-of-the-union-abortion-1140704

[msongs]

1. it will be just another look-at-me trump campaign rally with no dignity at all nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. Just how many abortions is Trump personally responsible for?

[Zambero]

3. Thinking the same

Will the amoral hypocrite also be revealing how many procedures that he arranged?

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. I so wish one of his ex girlfriends would come forward

You know he's paid for an abortion or three.

This looks like he didn't get all the support he wanted for his wall, so he's bringing up abortion to drum up support from his base.

[LiberalLovinLug]

44. A day or two before the SOTU would be perfect.

Count on Donnie dipshit to go after the red meat. His largest most sustained fan base, those brainwashed by religion. The easiest most gullible base in America.

[NewJeffCT]

31. I believe there were rumors of as many as 8

over the years from various mistresses

[fierywoman]

39. They should all be sitting in the gallery, next to the undocumented workers from his properties.

[SayItLoud]

4. tRUMP funded abortions need to come to light!

Hello Michael Cohen....now's the time to reveal how the hypocrite paid for them.

[Grokenstein]

5. Wassamatta U

What's the matter, Cheeto? Need a distraction? Or just trying to stir more violence and chaos on a fresh front?

[TwistOneUp]

15. Wassamatta U - that reminds me

Of the Italian professor that tried to open an international university in Iran: Ayatolla U! lol

[marybourg]

6. I'm sure we'll all be very intimidated

by “an antiabortion figure”.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Maybe Sarah Sanders

But he'll probably find someone even more vile.

[donkeypoofed]

8. Well, that sure is a great way to distract from RUS vs Mueller

Light a match on another.hot topic! It won't work, Donnie Two Scoops and the rest of the "Stupid Watergate " cast - there is way too much info about to drop and nothing will be able to cover that up. This scandal is soon to be blown wide open !

[George II]

9. I can't wait to see Stacey Abrams speak afterward.

[Chicago1980]

10. Hmmm...

Didn't he originally want Marla Maples to abort the fetus that became Tiffany?

[karin_sj]

11. He's desperate to hold on to his base

... especially since he hasn't come through with their most cherished desire: the wall to keep all the non-white people out of "their" country. Ugh, pathetic pandering. I don't think I'm going to have the stomach to watch this, even though I do want to see Nancy glaring and making faces at him from over his shoulder.

[underpants]

12. It's all the rage in Foxworld right now

They think they have themselves WINNER!

[TwistOneUp]

13. Mo' money!

Just remember the Wayans brothers on In Living Color:

Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!

Cheets is raking in the dough from his base and from the fundagelicals. This is simply a, "I'm still with you but we need your donations Now!" kinda thang. Mo' money!

[DownriverDem]

14. I won't watch

I just don't have the stomach to watch him lie. The abortion issue is one that will keep the religious voters with him. If Roe v Wade is ever overturned, abortion rights will go back to the states like before. New York has already passed a law indicating that abortions will remain legal if the SC overturns Roe v Wade.

[Paladin]

16. Just another reason for the Democrats not to attend. (nt)

[niyad]

17. Under Trump, states step up effort to restrict abortion access

Under Trump, states step up effort to restrict abortion access

Kentucky joins list of states attempting to push through stricter abortion laws as Supreme Court shifts under Trump.


Abortion opponents in Kentucky are backing a new 'fetal heartbeat' bill - the most restrictive yet, and one being considered in other states [Chris Kenning/Al Jazeera]


Louisville, Kentucky - Outside Kentucky's last abortion clinic, anti-abortion rights protesters gather each day to face off against orange-vested volunteers who escort women inside for a procedure that state politicians have increasingly sought to restrict in recent years. But now, abortion opponents are backing a new "fetal heartbeat" bill proposed in the Kentucky legislature - the most restrictive yet, and one being considered in other US states - that they hope will do more than ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat can be detected. Similar laws have been declared unconstitutional - including in Iowa, where a state judge on Tuesday struck down a 2018 fetal heartbeat measure for violating the state constitution.

But supporters of such bills in Iowa and Kentucky and elsewhere say they are aiming for appeals and legal challenges to reach a conservative-leaning US Supreme Court in hopes it will help overturn the 1973 case of Roe v Wade, which blocked states from prohibiting abortion before viability. "Roe v Wade being overturned would be wonderful - I hope it does happen," said Donna Durning, as she prayed, holding anti-abortion literature, next to an "Abortion is wrong" sign at the EMW Women's Clinic in Louisville. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sad outlawing abortion any time after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into a pregnancy, is unconstitutional and would effectively ban the procedure.


Court shifts to the right

Similar laws have been introduced in a handful of other states including Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota and Florida. North Dakota's 2013 law was struck down by a federal judge. The Supreme Court has not yet taken up the issue. Kentucky's Senate majority leader, Damon Thayer, has said he "would be proud if it is Kentucky that takes it up to the Supreme Court and we change Roe v Wade". Governor Matt Bevin has called himself an "unapologetically pro-life" Republican. Several abortion cases are currently making their way through federal appeals courts.

Trump's election and his appointment of two conservative-leaning justices - Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanagh - have emboldened politicians in some states to pursue restrictive measures, which have ranged from onerous regulations to bans on second-trimester abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights non-profit think-tank. "Many state lawmakers continue to consider and enact abortion bans that fly in the face of constitutional standards and Roe's precedent in anticipation of an eventual lawsuit on such a ban coming before a Supreme Court hostile to abortion rights," the group said. In Kentucky, several restrictive laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature have been blocked amid legal challenges, including requiring women to get an ultrasound before an abortion and a ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure.

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EMW Women's Clinic is Kentucky's only remaining abortion clinic [Chris Kenning/Al Jazeera]

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/trump-states-step-effort-restrict-abortion-access-190123154813019.html

[turbinetree]

18. Trump is even expected to deliver what one Republican close to the White House

called a “warm and fuzzy”......................really, that's disgusting, sounds like something from Access Hollywood tape..................

[BruceWane]

20. God help us all

If the prepared content "clocks in at about one hour" and "will range widely", once the idiot-in-chief is done it'll probably be 3AM and he'll have talked about everything from the superbowl to water on Mars.

[Clash City Rocker]

21. Two thirds of the country supports Roe v. Wade

He really seems desperate to pander to people who would vote for him anyway, ignoring the wishes of most Americans.

[ScratchCat]

26. Yeh, I was going to post the same thought

Roe V. Wade is supported by the overwhelming majority of Americans and always has. Heck, you could take a "secret" poll in a church on Sunday morning and 2/3's would be in favor of RvW. Re-criminalizing abortion is a losing proposition and only plays with an extreme minority of the country.

[NewJeffCT]

30. that is actually a good sign

since it seems he feels the need to shore up his base and inspire them to turn out next year

[Mopar151]

35. He's already lost the rest.

If he does'nt throw the Orcs some raw meat, they could turn on him.

[ananda]

22. Can Pelosi disinvite him ... please?

..

[Maxheader]

23. The wingers always get their ass bit when they start getting all righteous

about sex...

How many times have we read about righty politicos that wail about the liberals decadent lifestyles...only to get caught in some scandal? Don't we have a justice in the supremos with such allegations?

Stumpys shining the spotlight on abortions will open up issues that the worthless fuck is ill-prepared
to handle....

[NewJeffCT]

29. They don't seem to care about Trump

Even though he supposedly has paid for as many as 8 abortions for various mistresses over the years

[keithbvadu2]

24. The SOTU speech we need

[Mc Mike]

25. Down to their last hot button wedge issue, the only one they haven't gotten completely

crotch stomped on yet.

Though they richly deserve it.

[Lonestarblue]

27. If ever there was an argument for abortion, Trump is it.

Too bad Trump’s parents didn’t stop before he was born. The world would be a better place without him.

[NewJeffCT]

28. I guess that means

he feels he needs to get the evangelical voters fired up

[Docreed2003]

32. What an obvious play for his Evangelical supporters

This is such bullshit

[IcyPeas]

33. Cha-Ching $$$

This subject, abortion, brings in lots of money . That's all it is. The Christians, like that Covington pro-life school will all be donating $$$$ , that's why this topic comes up over and over. They make millions off it from all the evangelicals and fundies. It's a successful model.

[TheCowsCameHome]

34. Is it too late for his mother to have one?

Damn. That was our best hope.

[DirtEdonE]

38. That was my first thought

And she would have won the Nobel Peace Prize if they'd only known what we know now.

[TheCowsCameHome]

40. +1

[RAB910]

36. As if Donald hasn't found enough ways to betray the United States

[DirtEdonE]

37. "right to lifers" should be properly named

right to birthers because those fundie hypocrites don't give one damn about any of those babies' lives after the moment they're born.

[TryLogic]

43. Good point. Good idea.

[Runningdawg]

41. Even my friends laughed when I told them 40 years ago

when I was in nursing school with a bunch of bible thumpers that one day RvW would not only be overturned in my lifetime, but that people they know would be jailed for the deaths of their already born children.
They aren't laughing anymore.

[yaesu]

42. its just another campaign speech, will pass. nt

[kimbutgar]

45. Please woman who have abortions because of the orange maggot come forward now.

He needs to be exposed.

[bluestarone]

46. THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[samnsara]

47. im not watching it...