Here's what Trump had to say concerning his previous answer to the question, "should a woman be punished for having an abortion".

March 30, 2016
Donald Trump tells MSNBC if abortion becomes illegal women should face "some sort of punishment."

But after becoming the Republican presumptive nominee this week, MSNBC’s Willie Geist asked Trump if he still believed that to be true.

Trump:
"No, he was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, but he was asking a rhetorical question, and I gave an answer. And by the way, people thought from an academic standpoint, and, asked rhetorically, people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer! But of course not, and I said that afterwards."

(Only Sarah Palin could toss a better word salad.)