Trump leaves the door open to new restrictions on contraception

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The question was simple: “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?” Donald Trump could've replied, "No." He didn't.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-leaves-door-open-new-restrictions-contraception-rcna153334

An awkward conversation soon followed: Does the contemporary Republican Party have a problem with birth control? That conversation appears likely to get quite a bit louder. Politico reported:

Former President Donald Trump said he’s “looking at” restrictions on contraception during an interview with a local TV station in Pittsburgh released Tuesday. While he didn’t provide any details, he told KDKA political analyst Jon Delano that he plans to share a policy on contraception “very shortly.”

The wording of the question couldn’t have been more straightforward: “Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?”

The presumptive GOP nominee could’ve very easily replied, “No, I don’t.” That’s not, however, how he replied.

“We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting,” Trump said. He went to describe his policy — the one he didn’t want to share for reasons he did not explain — as “smart.”....

Link to tweet

In other words, Trump’s position is highly relevant, especially as he keeps it a secret for reasons unknown.

Julie Chavez Rodriguez, President Joe Biden’s campaign manager, recently argued that a Trump victory would put “contraception in jeopardy nationwide.” It’s awfully generous of the presumptive GOP nominee to help bolster Democratic arguments on the issue.

[Irish_Dem]

1. If Trump is back in the WH, young women will have the shock of their lives.

All the rights they take for granted will be gone.

[riversedge]

4. Until they are unable to get birth control pills, their ears and eyes are closed.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Human nature usually involves people learning things the hard way.

[kevink077]

11. Many of them don't want rights

Sad but true. And they want to push these horrible policies and people that want rights .

[ms liberty]

2. Trial balloon. Teaser for this season's story arc. Signaling to the RWNJ's.

If he takes office, he would do it in a nanosecond. And brag about it ever after.

[B.See]

15. EXACTLY

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Translated: Every fertile woman should have

a baby, save for nuns.

[haele]

5. Any time TFG says he's planning something "very interesting" -

- history shows someone innocent is going to get screwed and he is going to benefit from it.

He doesn't do anything because it's the right thing to do, he does only what benefits him, either short term or long term.
In this case, it's probably to throw anything federal relating to public health that his backers purport as immoral (vaccines, female reproductive health, the FDA, the CDC) "back to the states" for theocratic or financial reasons.

Haele

[TBF]

7. Donald Trump bragging about the fall of Roe:

Trump: 'I was able to kill Roe v. Wade'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897#:~:text=ABORTION%20RIGHTS-,Trump%3A%20%27I%20was%20able%20to%20kill%20Roe%20v.%20Wade%27,in%20eliminating%20federal%20abortion%20rights%2C%20taking%20credit%20for%20state%2Dlevel%20bans.,-Donald%20Trump%20at

Next they take away birth control. Any woman who doesn't believe he will do it has rocks for brains.

[twodogsbarking]

8. The year is 2024. WTF.

[demosincebirth]

9. He really doesn't know what he wants. We all should know this.

Says one thing one thing one day, next day changes his mind

[MorbidButterflyTat]

12. I think it depends

on who is offering him what. His "policy" is up for grabs to the highest bidder.

This fool has no mind to change.

[demosincebirth]

13. I think what ever enters his pea brain that day is big deal for him

[MorbidButterflyTat]

14. True

And it probably is. It's got to get through all that head flab and venture deep into the recesses of crud just to locate the pea.

[kevink077]

10. This monster needs the be in a cage

Invoking Hitler type policies 100%

[Ping Tung]

16. Keep talking Donnie. Your method of alienating voters is working just fine.

One of the things seldom mentioned is that there are many women who would reject abortion as a choice for themselves but they have daughters, sisters, cousins, and friends who may need, or just want, an abortion. Can you imagine a parent who tells their 14 year old daughter not to use contraception? Or, tell her sister not to get an abortion if she had been raped?

Being "Pro Life" isn't about "life". It's about punishment.

[ShazzieB]

18. There are quite a few parents who are opposed to their daughters using birth control or having an abortion.

They may or may not say those things in so many words, but they are unspoken subtext in an overarching message of "Don't even THINK of having sex before you get married, because only sluts do that!"

The girls who get that message know that any sexual activity has to be carefully concealed from Mom and Dad, which also means they can't come to their parents for information about birth control, much less (God forbid) help in obtaining it. Good luck, kids!

Parents in that frame of mind will be perfectly happy with a ban on contraception and abortion for their kids, but most of them will not be happy to find it off limits to themselves. "I'm a grown ass adult!! How dare you take away my contraception!" they'll say indignantly. But by that time, it'll probably be too late.

Of course this is just one more of the multiplicity of reasons why TSF must NOT be allowed to win in November!

[TSExile]

19. They don't give a crap about life...and they never have.

It's all a raw POWER grab. It's CONTROL. To paraphrase the Barbie movie, it's about putting all the Jezebels in the box.

[EllieBC]

17. All of those "unsure" voters...

why don’t you just come out and say you don’t give a shit about women in the US? Or LGBTQA in the US?

If you are unsure if you want to vote for Biden, you simply dgaf about any woman.

[area51]

20. I've never seen someone try so hard to sabotage their own campaign. n/t

[Cha]

21. Yeah, don't "rule it out" Idiot.