Pro-Life's Community Plea to Donald Trump: Get a 'Full Grasp' of the Issue

The pro-life community has come out and unanimously criticized Donald Trump's controversial abortion comments he made to MSNBC hostChris Matthews.

However, they still are glad that Trump is a convert to the pro-life cause and are hoping he uses this moment to educate himself more fully on the issues surrounding the pro-life movement.

Also below is the statement they released after Trump made his comments (the statement was put out BEFORE Trump issued his clarifying statement).

"Mattie Brinkerhoff, a leader of the women's suffrage movement, said that when a woman undergoes an abortion it is evidence she has been 'greatly wronged.' The Revolution, the newspaper owned and operated by Susan B. Anthony published an op-ed asserting that, on abortion, 'thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime.' Alice Paul was known to have called abortion 'the ultimate exploitation of women.'

"We have never advocated, in any context, for the punishment of women who undergo abortion.

"As a convert to the pro-life movement, Mr. Trump sees the reality of the horror of abortion – the destruction of an innocent human life – which is legal in our country up until the moment of birth. But let us be clear: punishment is solely for the abortionist who profits off of the destruction of one life and the grave wounding of another."