Trump is fighting on Trump's side. That's all he cares about. His position on abortion is the same as it ever was as a liberal guy from NYC. He's simply saying the words you guys want to hear to keep your support.
I would remind you there are other serious issues related to the sanctity of life which you ignore. The average lifespan has gone DOWN in each of the last two years. I personally don't ever remember that happening before in my lifetime.
www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/astonishing-numbers-behind-republican-crusade-against-pregnant-womenthe
Christian Right opposition to universal health care and attacks on everything from Medicare to school lunch programs demonstrate that their concern for human life ends once a baby is born. If the GOP and its evangelical base truly were pro-life, they might object to the fact the U.S. now has the
highest maternal death rate in the developed world—a figure that is especially pronounced in Republican-dominated red states.
In 2016, The Lancet published the results of an
international study on maternal mortality that found U.S. women were
almost three times as likely to die from
pregnancy-related complications as their counterparts in Germany or the U.K., and almost seven times as likely as women in Finland. According to the medical journal, maternal mortality in the U.S. increased from 16.9 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 26.4 per 100,000 live births in 2015.
Meanwhile pregnancy-related deaths have steadily decreased across the developed world. They now stand at 4.2 per 100,000 in Italy, 9.2 per 100,000 in the U.K., 5.6 per 100,000 in Spain, 5.5 per 100,000 in and Australia, 9 per 100,000 in Germany and Portugal, 7.8 per 100,000 in France, 7.3 per 100,000 in Canada and 6.7 per 100,000 in the Netherlands. Scandinavian countries also fared much better than the U.S. in The Lancet’s study, with maternal mortality rates of 4.4 per 100,000 in Sweden, 4.2 per 100,000 in Denmark and 3.8 per 100,000 in Finland.
Maternal death rates in 2015 for Japan and Poland were 5 and 3 per 100,000 respectively, according to a separate study conducted by UNICEF.
In the U.S., there is a strong correlation between
maternal mortality and poverty. African-American women are more likely to be poor than white women; they're also three times more likely to die in childbirth. As many as 60 percent of the maternal deaths that occurred in the U.S. between 2004-2014 were
preventable, per the CDC Foundation.
Maternal mortality is also likely to be higher in states where family planning has come under attack from the GOP. When Republicans undermine Planned Parenthood, which offers a variety of services including
prenatal care, they not only limit access to birth control, cancer screenings and STD tests but endanger the health of pregnant women. In Texas, where women are eight times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than they are in Sweden,
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It makes no sense to take away access to contraception and to block discussion of it in schools and to claim to be against abortion. Both of these activities increase the number of unwanted pregnancies which increases the number of abortions.
