Posted on 01/13/2016 10:53:29 AM PST by presidio9
At an event to accept the endorsement of Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire on Sunday, Hillary Clinton called for unlimited taxpayer-funding of elective abortions for Medicaid recipients.
"I believe we need to protect access to safe and legal abortion, not just in principle, but in practice. Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all," Clinton said. "Not as long as we have laws on the book like the Hyde amendment, making it harder for low income women to exercise their full rights,"
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The Hyde amendment prevents federal funding of abortion through Medicaid, except in cases where the pregnancy endangers the life of the mother or is the result of rape or incest. The ACLU notes that after the Hyde amendment was first passed in 1976, "abortions financed by federal Medicaid funds dropped from about 300,000 per year to a few thousand." Studies have shown that hundreds of thousands of people are alive today because of the Hyde amendment.
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A 2010 Quinnipiac poll found that American voters opposed public funding of abortion by a 40-point margin--67 percent to 27 percent.
Although a President Hillary Clinton would likely face tough opposition in Congress to repealing the Hyde amendment, it may only take one Supreme Court appointment to accomplish that goal. Restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion were upheld by the Supreme Court by a 6-3 decision in 1980 and by a 5-4 decision in 1991.
In 2009, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Bill Clinton appointee, said she was "surprised" the Court upheld the Hyde amendment because she believed "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of" would lead -SNIP-
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Kill the poor, and then sell their body parts.
Clinton’s anti-poverty program.
And the sheeple love her.
Other than my moral objections, I’d be all for it.
I want mine. Retroactively.
9 months x 60 years = 540 free abortions.
But I a male, declaring female for this.
I want to be reimbursed in cash for the abortions I did not have.
She’s trying to out Lib Bernie.
Although she certainly believes this.
Socialists think they can make everything free.
Don’t higher income taxpayers have the right to not fund things that they find morally objectionable Hillary?
And now, here's ms liberal herself using the concept in all seriousness.
Negro Project 2
Average age of a Medicaid recipient is under 18.
How much brain damage does this ditz have to think they will need an abortion?
Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at al
so I have a right to the pursuit of happiness.yes?
“where my access at!??”
#freehappinessforallnow!
Exactly what we 2nd Amendment types have been saying all along
If only her mom would have had this available, it would be a much better country.
Excellent point.
If someone else must labor to supply it, it isn’t a right.
That will not be happening for several reasons,hillary dear.
"The whole idea I had in mind was to evoke images of genocide, and to make abortion-minded people think of the implications."
Oh really? What about a REAL right, your ankle-ness? How about the right to bear arms?
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