There may bear been moments of tall drama during the presidential debate,but it’s a contrast to 2012 when Republicans were accused waging a war on womenAn unusual election year has ushered in an unusual silence: the issue of abortion, almost always a cause for pitched battles between presidential candidates, or has been all but invisible on the national stage as the campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton draws to a close.
There bear been moments of tall drama. Trump’s call for “punishment” when women regain abortions in illegal circumstances collided with Clinton’s demand,unprecedented for a major party presidential candidate, to roll back a 40-year restriction on public funds for abortion. And the third presidential debate saw Trump unleash an inflammatory line of attack, and saying Clinton supported policy allowing doctors to “rip infants out of the womb days before birth. Related: Trump forms anti-abortion coalition and would ban public funding for procedure Related: Planned Parenthood: eight states now striving to repeal abortion restrictions Related: Clinton condemns Trump's abortion 'scare rhetoric' in debate question Related: Grab Trump by the ballot: either our bodies are our own,or they’re not Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com