In defense of Trump's (original) abortion statement

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the-pi-guy said:

I absolutely do not agree with Trump when it comes to punishment. 

I view life to be precious.  I don't like abortion.  I don't like how a lot of the people that don't like abortion seem to prize anti-abortion over life.  "I'm pro-life, but I am perfectly okay with you dying in war or dying of starvation."  I don't agree with that.  

There is a point when the fetus is viable to live outside the womb, at that point the grounds for being allowed to kill it, is basically where it is.  If it's right here, it's okay to kill it; but the second it comes out it's illegal.  That doesn't make a lot of sense. "yes you can kill the dog in the cage, but take it out before killing it, that's animal cruelty."

Personally don't think that anyone who gets an abortion should be punished. 

You, sir, are exactly what this thread is looking for! 

You don't like abortion.  Is that just your personal choice, or do you want to make it illegal for everyone?  If doing an abortion is against the law, why should we not punish people who break the law?  More broadly, why should anything be against the law that there is no punishment for doing anyway (breaking the law)? 

(P.S.  I actually agree with you about the viability argument for when it is/isn't okay to abort.  I believe it's about how mentally developed the fetus is.  If science advances to make a 400-celled blastocyst "viable", that doesn't make it a person to me.  For you, it is a person and the fact that it isn't viable with today's science doesn't make it not a person.  I agree with that logic.)