By Carey Lodge
Christian Today
A clash over abortion rights marked the third US presidential debate on Wednesday that saw Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton go head to head for the last time before November 8.
The rival candidates had a sharp but issues-based exchange on abortion, gun rights and immigration to start the 90-minute showdown.
The substantive policy discussion on the Supreme Court and the top issues it faces contrasted with the fiery personal attacks that characterized the first two debates.
Clinton promised to appoint justices who would uphold a woman's right to abortion laid out in the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision, while Trump promised to appoint what he called "pro-life" justices who would overturn the decision.
Under current law, Trump said, "You can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby."
"Honestly, nobody has business doing what I just said, doing that as late as one or two or three or four days prior to birth," Trump said.
Clinton said Trump's "scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate" and added: "We have come too far to have that [Roe vs Wade] turned back now."
"This is one of the worst possible choices that any woman and her family has to make and I do not believe the government should be making it," Clinton said.
Trump said he would appoint a Supreme Court justice who would protect American gun rights.
By Steven Ertelt
Life News
Tonight, during the presidential debate, pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended partial birth abortions on babies late in pregnancy. She said that she didn’t think the government should be stepping in to protect unborn children that late in pregnancy.
Despite factual information showing that partial birth abortions happen in most cases on healthy babies and healthy mothers, Clinton claimed that killing unborn children in partial birth abortions was necessary because of supposed special cases where abortion was necessary to save the life or health of the mother — even though considerable research has documented the fact that abortions often hurt and kill women.
“I’m going to give you a chance respond but I want to ask you Secretary Clinton I want to explore how far you believe the right to abortion goes. You have been quoted as saying that the fetus has no constitutional rights. You also voted against a ban on late-term partial-birth abortions. Why? ” moderator Chris Wallace asked Clinton.
“I do not think the United States government should be stepping in,” Clinton said in defense of the partial-birth abortion procedure.
“Because Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and health of the mother are taken into account. And when I voted as a senator I did not think that that was the case. The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make. I have met with women who have, toward the end of their pregnancy, get the worst news one could get that their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term or that something terrible has happened or just been discovered about the pregnancy,” she continued.
By Steven Ertelt
Life News
Tonight’s [Monday night's] presidential debate ignored the biggest issue on the minds of millions of pro-life voters — where the candidates stand on the more than four decades of legalized abortions that have collectively destroyed the lives of 58 million unborn children.
While the debate didn’t get into the important issue, pro-life voters can’t forget how,during an interview on The View, Hillary Clinton said an unborn child just hours before delivery should have no Constitutional rights. her comments come just days after Clinton said unborn children simply do not have any Constitutional rights, which would include the right to life.
During the interview a host on The View followed up on the previous comments:
PAULA FARIS: "And Secretary, I want to ask you about some comments that you made over the weekend on Meet the Press regarding abortion. You said, quote, “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.” My question is at what point does someone have constitutional rights, and are you saying that a child, on its due date, just hours before delivery still has no constitutional rights?"
HILLARY CLINTON: "Under our law, that is the case."
But was Clinton just citing the current law? No, she continues on to say that she supports Roe v. Wade, which makes it the case that unborn children have no constitutional rights even hours before birth. She added that she thinks women should have the sole decision-making power over the lives of unborn children without any limits.
If elected, Clinton potentially would be the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history. Clinton’s abortion stance is radical and out of touch with most Americans. She promised Planned Parenthood that she would try to overturn the Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to fund abortions, which would funnel even more tax dollars to the abortion industry.
