Posted on 01/28/2005 5:20:09 AM PST by kattracks
Aides to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton insist that her comments to an Albany abortion rights group earlier this week were nothing new for the top Democrat - that she's always been against the procedure and has long pushed for programs to make abortion "safe, legal and rare."
But when Mrs. Clinton was in charge of health care reform, she sought a radical expansion of abortion availability, making it a taxpayer funded woman's right. Under Hillarycare, all health insurance plans were forced to cover abortions as part of the standard benefits package. Medicaid beneficiaries would have been covered for elective abortions. Mrs. Clinton would have also had taxpayers pick up the tab for abortions for uninsured women who previously had to pay for the procedure themselves.
Hillary's blanket coverage may have fit with her pledge to make abortion "safe and legal," but would have hardly helped keep it "rare."
In fact, her refusal to compromise on the abortion provision became a lightning rod for opposition and was one the reasons Hillarycare went down in flames.
Every now and then, Mrs. Clinton drops her "abortion is tragic" facade, and her true position emerges.
In 1994, for instance, she cabled American diplomats at the U.N. population conference in Cairo to urge participating countries to affirm that "access to safe, legal and voluntary abortion is a fundamental right of all women."
Mrs. Clinton's new image as an abortion moderate also doesn't jibe with her continuing support for partial birth abortion.
Asked about the gruesome procedure during her 2000 Senate campaign, Hillary called it "horrible."
But in the next breath the real Hillary blurted out: "But if your life is at stake, if your health is at stake, if the potential for having any more children is at stake, this must be a woman's choice."
This slogan evades the underlying moral issue. By definition, abortion is never 'safe' for the fetus - it inevitably ends in its death.
Hillary must think that people don't have good memories. Her words and past actions can never be forgotten.
CAN ANYONE REMEMBER THE FIRST EXECUTIVE ORDERS OF THE HIS AND HERS ADMINISTRATION?
Homos in the military!
No kidding! Cool bumperstickers BTW.
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