As the 2024 election heats up, many pundits are turning their attention to abortion as a key issue after Donald Trump released his official statement on abortion. “The states will determine by vote, or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land – in this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different. Many states will have a different number of weeks…at the end of the day it is all about the will of the people,” he wrote in a statement. He also stated he would not sign a national abortion ban, a promise he made in previous campaigns. It’s earned him the ire of some pro-life groups, who accuse him of flip-flopping.
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Speaking about Trump’s position on “The View,” host Whoopi Goldberg defended the need for abortion. “I want to make sure … that, if you decide this is what you need to do, I’m going to get behind you, because I don’t know your life, and if you say this is what you need, that’s what I’m going to do,” she said. She also inferred that she did not believe in any term limits for abortion, saying “50 weeks, 75,000 weeks, whatever how many weeks, it’s nobody’s business.” She said it was a decision between “you, your doctor, and God” and that it didn’t fall under “the Big Ten,” meaning the Ten Commandments.
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Goldberg did not note the nuance with the word “kill” used in the Bible, with some translation using the word “murder” instead. According to “Got Answers,” there are two words used to describe killing in Hebrew: ratsakh and mut. “Ratsakh” is the word used in the Ten Commandments and refers to murder, including an even broader definition than English, according to “Got Questions.”
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