It was NOT anything vaguely resembling what Trump said in
the 3rd debate
By
the late Molly Ivins
To watch this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLREXwWH4fGF468Y0mKivJrLRFYYcpBE8n&v=fB0fBMA07eQ
“There's something very
wrong in our discussion of this. If there's anything that late-term abortion
is, it is not an easy call.
And I just want to say,
that perhaps, I almost get the impression that somebody thinks women don't have
no moral sense at all.
No woman who is seven
months pregnant, ever waddles past an abortion clinic and says, 'Darn, I knew there
was something I've been meaning to get around to.' This is ridiculous.
You have those late-term
abortions, because either the mother is going to die, the child is going to die, or both are
going to die.
These procedures are incredibly rare. I only know of two in the state of Texas since Roe v. Wade was passed.
They were both what they
call cases of babies with no brain. The brain, the child's brain stem had developed, but then
something went horribly wrong and these children literally had no brains.
Now, is that an easy
call? Is that simple to you? I am really, I'm… let me try and calm down - it's
not going to do any good for me to get excited.
If the choice… These are
women who want their babies, they want the babies, terribly. What would you do,
and I'm talking to the women in the audience.
If a doctor said to you, 'Either your baby
has to die, or you will die, or your health will be wrecked for the rest of
your life, and you'll never be able to have another child.' I don't know what you'd do.
I think you'd want a
second opinion.
But if I were you, I sure
as hell wouldn't ask Bob Dole [who was running for President at the time and
had the same sort of ignorant view of this issue as Donald Trump], because I
don't think that's an easy call.”