If a woman pays someone to kill her husband, is she, in the eyes of the law, as responsible for his death as the person who kills him?
If a drug addict is arrested while buying drugs from a drug dealer, is that person, who some would say suffers from a disease called addiction, as guilty of committing a crime as the person selling?
So why is it that both sides of a hot-button topic would publicly criticize a presidential candidate for stating, in a hypothetical scenario, that someone actively participating in a criminal act should be punished? I might add, a criminal act that many call murder.
Thus essentially a woman who would pay a doctor to have an abortion would be committing murder for hire, would she not? If abortion were to become illegal, why shouldn’t both parties in the activity suffer the consequences and punishments of committing such illegal acts?
I am pro-choice to the extent that I’ve voted in the past based solely on this issue. I think Donald Trump, put simply, is not presidential material. Yet I am angered by the hypocrisy of the pro-life people who would like to stone me but also would call me a victim rather than a perpetrator in this hypothetical scenario.
For once, I think Mr. Trump answered correctly. Too bad, as usual, he reneged.
Terri Wasowski
Pembroke