Nancy Pelosi To Donald Trump: 'You Can't Be A Little Bit Pro-Life'

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Source: Huff Post

Apr 9, 2024, 02:51 PM EDT


Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called out Donald Trump’s noncommittal stance on abortion access, accusing him of saying whatever he thinks will help him retake the presidency. “He doesn’t believe anything,” the California Democrat said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show. “He believes in his political survival, and that’s what he’s trying to accommodate. But you can’t be a little bit pro-life. You’re there or you’re not there.”

Pelosi’s comments come a day after Trump posted a video on his Truth Social platform to boast about his role in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, a move that ended the constitutional right to an abortion. He indicated that he’s happy leaving the issue up to individual states, creating a patchwork of abortion access around the country.

“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state,” said the presumptive GOP nominee for the White House.

The video, which arrived amid pressure to clarify his position on the matter, failed to address what Trump would do as president if Republicans take control of Congress and pass stringent nationwide abortion restrictions. His remarks were an obvious attempt to play both sides of the issue, Pelosi charged. “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are stupid,” she said on the morning show.

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"The issue of women's right to choose is a democracy issue... When [Trump] said what he said yesterday, he either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are stupid... You can't be a little bit pro-life, you're there or you're not."

— @SpeakerPelosi on Trump's abortion message
8:27 AM · Apr 9, 2024

Here's her interview -

[poli-junkie]

1. She needs to use the phrase:

“Forced birther” or anti-choice.

The pro-life phrase is an easy out for the GOP Taliban.

What about the life of the woman?!!!

[Stuart G]

2. K and R

[soldierant]

7. but it's true, you canot be "a little bit" pro-life.

You can be pro-some-lives and anti-others. The GOP is pro-human-male -life (and in some cases only pro-white-human-male life.) If they could figure out a way to reproduce without us, they'd kill us all.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Fuck, I HATE that term pro-life.

[FakeNoose]

4. I won't use that term, for me it's "anti-choice"

But that's only when I'm forced to boil it down to a one-word description.

We all know that this movement to deny women our reproductive freedoms is so much more than a one-word description.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Pregnant pause follows... nt

[Mysterian]

6. I appreciate she's attacking Trump

but it was clumsy and poorly-worded. She should stop using the fascist terminology "pro-life," and it almost sounds like she's arguing it's better to be a complete and total abortion prohibitionist.

[poli-junkie]

8. It's way past time to call it:

Controlling women — control women’s ability to move about the world. White men do not want to share power with women.

[calimary]

9. That's EXACTLY what it is. I think some men would eagerly roll back our right to vote if they thought

they could get away with it.