Posted on 10/14/2015 2:44:54 PM PDT by NYer
LAS VEGAS, October 14, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – In one of only two references to abortion in the entire Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton lambasted Republican efforts to investigate Planned Parenthood and restrict abortion-on-demand.
"It's always the Republicans or their sympathizers who say, 'You can't have paid leave, you can't provide health care.' They don't mind having big government to interfere with a woman's right to choose and to try to take down Planned Parenthood," she said to boisterous applause from the Democratic audience.
"We should not be paralyzed by the Republicans and their constant refrain, 'big government this, big government that,' but except for what they want to impose on the American people," she said.
Tom McClusky, the vice president for government affairs at March for Life Action, responded, "Mrs. Clinton seems to feel abortion giant Planned Parenthood is a victim of big government. Correction, Mrs. Clinton: with over half a billion in taxpayer funds filling their coffers Planned Parenthood is big government."
The second reference to abortion last night came from former Rhode Island Governor and U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee, a onetime "pro-choice Republican" who is polling at one percent of the vote or less.
"I open my record to scrutiny. Whether it's on the environment, a woman's right to choose, gay marriage, fiscal responsibility, aversion to foreign entanglements, using the tools of government to help the less fortunate -- time and time again, I have never changed," he said." You're looking at a block of granite when it comes to these issues."
Abortion and family issues received scant coverage in the first Democratic debate, moderated by CNN at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas - something that upset both sides of the issue.
“Abortion is the human rights abuse of today and should absolutely be a bipartisan issue," said March for Life Education and Defense Fund President Jeanne Mancini. "It is truly sad that the life issues weren’t addressed head-on within the presidential debate last night, especially given that they featured prominently in the other two debates in recent weeks.”
The exclusion of social issues also irked many grassroots Democrats committed to identity politics.
"Clinton's remarks gained some of the biggest cheers of the night," Cate Carejo wrote at Bustle. "If the audience of the debate is any indication, the Democratic Party stands with Planned Parenthood and with Clinton, at least on reproductive rights."
Aside from a reference in Clinton's opening statement to "the continuing discrimination against the LGBT community," homosexuality issues were all-but unexplored, a marked contrast to CNN's Republican debate, moderated by Jake Tapper.
Moderator Anderson Cooper made one glancing reference when he asked Clinton: "You were against same-sex marriage. Now you're for it. You defended President Obama's immigration policies. Now you say they're too harsh. You supported his trade deal dozen of times. You even called it the 'gold standard.' Now, suddenly, last week, you're against it. Will you say anything to get elected?"
Otherwise, the five candidates - Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee - focused largely on economic and foreign policy concerns.
The most tweeted line of the evening came from self-avowed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, who said Hillary Clinton had been subjected to undue scrutiny over her e-mail server.
Federal authorities are investigating whether Clinton's use of a private server subjected national security secrets to the likelihood of espionage, as well as whether she tried to hide thousands of e-mail messages from Congressional inquiry.
"The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails," Sanders said. Clinton, visibly moved, left her podium to embrace the Vermont socialist.
...but this ghoul criminal just loves chopping-up babies and selling their parts for profit.
What an evil, disgusting monster.
Yeah, and if you listen to the pundits, the polls and the pols, we all LOVE PP, want it to stick around, will fund it to the hilt with tax money and think it’s doing one hell of a great job.../s
Well, I’m sick of those bloodthirsty ghouls over at Planned Parenthood using lies and heavy-handed sales tactics on young girls in order to encourage them to get pregnant and use abortion for birth control. Surely, women have the right not to be used as cash cows for the abortion industry.
Correction: that would be 570 stadiums.
Demented ghoul in a political party of demented ghouls.
I am sick of Hillary Clinton. The amount of support that she has on this forum surprised me also. I see now why she will be occupying the White House again in 2017.
YEAH BUT, DOES THE CLINTONS GET A NICE BIG FAT MOCHOO DENARO MEGA BUCKS DIVIDENDS CHECK FROM PLAN DEMONHOOD EVERY YEAR ?
HILLARY ? Is your hand in the big fat government cookie jar kickback from Plan Demohood , YES ? Or NO ?
PP took themselves DOWN but murdering infants for $$$
55 million and counting
plus clintoon gladly takes the campaign contributions...
Now, what is the difference between that and Chelsea having a late term abortion and killing her before she could be born? You support that, right?
The baby ends up dead both ways. One way and you get sympathy from everyone on the left and the other way Planned Parenthood ups its profits and keeps on aborting a third of the black babies in America, right?
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I ran out of zero’s. It makes it more horrible.
Every year there is something new that The Beast is sick of.
- Remember when she was sick and tired of the The Politics Of Personal Destruction?
That was when Bill was being accused of having sex with Monica Lewinsky.
- Then she said “I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic.”
Of course that was before the administration changed from republican to democrat.
If she only knew how sick and tired we are of hearing that screeching, chalk-on-the-blackboard, whining voice of hers.
Im sick of Democrats murdering unborn babies!!!
I read a National Enquirer story two weeks ago that this b*tch only has 6 months to live..lets hope its sooner rather than later
Hey Hil....
Are you sick of PP butchering babies for profit?
Now that you brought it up Hillary there’s no denying that you do look sick and tired! Your councountenance looked a little pasty in the debate. Or was it the war paint you were stained with?
No point in starting another kerfuffle I guess! You have started too many already!
Amen!
This from a woman (supposedly) whose husband tried to take down Microsoft - a company that got no Federal tax dollars.
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