Posted on 05/17/2006 11:39:33 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
2008 White House hopeful Hillary Clinton is blaming right wing "ideologues" for denying women access to contraceptives - leaving them no choice but to end their unwanted pregnancies with abortion.
The move to withhold contraceptives "was started by a small group of extreme ideologues who claim the right to impose their personal beliefs on the overwhelming majority of the American people," Mrs. Clinton declared in an email to supporters on Wednesday.
"They're waging this silent war on contraception by using the power of the White House and their right-wing allies in Congress," she complains, adding, "and so far, they're getting away with it."
So just how are these right wing ideologues driving up the abortion rate? Mrs. Clinton explains:
"Low-income women, denied access to contraception, are having more unwanted pregnancies -- four times as many as those for higher income women. And almost half of all unwanted pregnancies end in abortions." The former first lady didn't explain, however, why - in places like New York City, where high school nurses' offices distribute candy-flavored condoms - the abortion rate continues to soar.
In January, for instance, the New York Daily News reported:
"For every 100 babies born in New York City, women had 74 abortions in 2004, according to newly released figures that reaffirm the city as the abortion capital of the country . . . . That means 40 out of 100 pregnancies in the city ended in a planned abortion - almost double the national average of 24 of 100 pregnancies in 2002."
She must NEVER be POTUS!!!!!
Huh? Now just WHERE in the United States are condoms or contraceptives illegal?
Ronin wrote: "Huh? Now just WHERE in the United States are condoms or contraceptives illegal?"
You just don't understand liberal-speak. What she's really saying is poor women are denied access to contraceptives because the government isn't handing out FREE contraceptives.
Why not? She voted for a border fence. Doesn't that mean she's god?
My comments: "You just don't understand liberal-speak. What she's really saying is poor women are denied access to contraceptives because the government isn't handing out FREE contraceptives."
CORRECTION: What she's really saying is poor women are denied access to contraceptives because the government doesn't have nationalized health care.
That's more like it.
She'd probably say that because conservatives think it's inappropriate to give contraceptives to 4 year olds abortion is the fault of conservatives.
She wants to ride abortion to the Presidency as her liberal sacrament to appease the left.
I think attitudes have changed a bit over the last ten years and that could really be a stake through the heart of her campaign, as could reminding everyone she tried to force socialized medicine on Americans.
Let's get back to immigration....
Oh the wonders of triangulation. That is just gutsy.
That said, I can not imagine why people think this woman is so smart.
Billary went to the crossroads and made a pact with old nick, now she has to pay the butchers bill by slamming the church as right wing idealogues. How else do you explain the meteoric rise of trailer trash??
Everyone look, a strawman!!!
ping
I think your insulting trailer trash ;)
If they can't afford contraceptives then how can they afford abortions?
I am continually amazed and impressed by peoples imaginatin, creativity and ability to rationalize and justify pure bullshit.
Doh, forgot the o in imaginatiOn.
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