2011 GOP Google/Fox News presidential primary debate in Orlando FL: on Abortion


Ron Paul: More laws don't solve problems on abortion

Q: You have said that you believe that life begins at conception and that abortion ends an innocent life. If you believe that, how can you support a rape exception to abortion bans, and how can you support the morning-after pill? Aren't those lives just as innocent?

PAUL: They may be, but the way this is taken care of in our country, it is not a national issue. This is a state issue. And there are circumstances where doctors in the past have used certain day-after pills for somebody with rape. And, quite frankly, if somebody is treated, you don't even know if a person is pregnant; if it's 24 hours after rape, I don't know how you're going to police it. We have too many laws already. Now, how are you going to police the day-after pill? Nobody can out-do me on respect for life. I've spent a lifetime dealing with life. But I still think there is a time where the law doesn't solve the problems. Only the moral character of the people will eventually solve this problem, not the law.

Source: 2011 GOP Google debate in Orlando FL Sep 22, 2011

  • The above quotations are from Fox News-Google Presidential debate, Sept. 22, 2011, at the Orlando Convention Center.
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Donald Trump(NY)
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