Comparing Clinton And Trump's Abortion Debate

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may have been born in different places but they both grew up in the state of New York. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1947 and Donald Trump was born in New York City, New York on June 14, 1946. Donald Trump earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1968. Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 26, 1947 and raised in Park Ridge. She went to college at Wellesley College and Yale University Law School as well. She met her husband who was a student at the time, Bill Clinton, at the Yale University Law School (Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). Hillary Clinton is a democrat and that means that …show more content…
They have both publically stated that they will try and make voting at the polls easier. Another topic that Clinton and trump agree on is that there should be higher taxes on the wealthy. The individuals believe this because they suppose that millionaires and billionaires should pay more money than a working class single mother living on welfare and food stamps with 4 kids. Along with these subjects that the ecstatic candidates agree on there are others that they disagree on. One of these subjects that Clinton and Trump disagree on is abortion. An abortion is Clinton believes that it is a woman’s body and her choice. According to Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, “Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before the embryo or fetus is able to live outside the uterus.” But an abortion that naturally transpires is called a spontaneous abortion or in layman's terms, a miscarriage. It most often occurs when the uterus has refused an abnormal embryo or fetus. Spontaneous abortion often occurs when the mother has suffered a disease or injury (Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). When the health or fate of the mother would be endangered if the pregnancy were to be continued, a therapeutic abortion occurs (Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). Donald Trump on the other hand, does not want abortion to be legal because he believes it to be unlawful and murder. The two political giants disagree on gun control as well. Hillary Clinton believes that there should be stricter gun laws, or in layman’s terms, there should be more restrictions in order to buy a gun. This is because there have been far too many mass shootings in the United States of America and she and most democrats believe that making it harder to purchase a gun and having more in depth background checks would help lower the amount of casualties and lower the amount of mass shootings. Donald