Posted on 12/27/2007 6:16:11 PM PST by SJackson
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Campaigning in Iowa with just two weeks to go before the first presidential battles begin, pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton largely avoided a question of how abortion is hurting social security. A woman in the audience said abortion is going to make it harder to keep the system afloat.
Joanne Duncalf, a 61-year-old from Clarion, Iowa, asked the kind of question that normally doesn't come up at a Clinton campaign stop.
Duncalf asked Clinton her thoughts on how to fix Social Security so the program for seniors will be around when her children are ready to retire.
According to a Des Moines Register report, she followed up with a second question and explained that, if abortion hadn't been responsible for killing 50 million Americans, the system may be more solvent than it is now with more people in the workforce contributing to it.
"I'm very disappointed," Duncalf said, that "we're not doing more to save those babies."
Clinton initially avoided the question by making a comment on the large red hat Duncalf wore. She eventually got to the abortion aspect of the question but simply said she has worked to keep abortion "safe, legal, rare."
The New York senator said there is time to fix Social Security and blamed Republican presidential candidates for scaring voters by saying it has problems.
The question of abortion and its adverse impact on the Social Security system is one that doesn't get much attention.
Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller spoke about the impact and in March at a fundraiser for a Georgia pregnancy center.
"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security," he asserted.
Researchers agree with the notion that taking millions of Americans out of the workforce is causing problems.
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute said last year that “When you look at the projections that show our population aging rapidly over the next few decades, when you see our economy and government programs such as Social Security risking bankruptcy, you can see that the United States’ annual 0.9% population growth rate is not enough."
Duncalf said Clinton's response, however poor, was better than the one Democratic candidate Barack Obama gave her when she asked her question of him.
She told the Register about his answer: "He just pointed his finger like this and said, "That. Is. An abortion question.' If he can't handle stress like that, he can't be president."
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor told the newspaper he doesn't recall the question or Obama's reaction and said the candidate has addressed abortion questions in numerous forums.
Simple, babies of illegal immigrants will make up the difference since they’ll be using the same records.
New tagline for awhile
Bbbbwwwwaaahhhhhhhhhh!
“safe, legal, rare.”
Safe???
Abortion is harmful to both the mother and the child.
Legal?
Might be legal but its not moral.
Rare???
Obviously with 50 Million aborted, Abortion is not rare.
I can just imagine Hitler excusing concentration camps by stating that they are Safe, Legal and Rare.
Someone needs to say to say to her "We understand about safe and legal, now please tell us what you have done to make abortion 'rare.' "
“I can just imagine Hitler excusing concentration camps by stating that they are Safe, Legal and Rare.”
Probably one of the most effective analogies to expose abortion for what it is that that I have heard.
Rare???
Obviously with 50 Million aborted, Abortion is not rare.
I can just imagine Hitler excusing concentration camps by stating that they are Safe, Legal and Rare.
That Number excludes the 13% of Cases of Oral Contraception acting as an Abortafacient..
wouldn’t 50 million additional people in SS also have 50 million more drwwing from it ? wouldn’t we eventually get to the same place we are today ?
pro-life ping
This is a transcription by the reporter of Clinton's comments (would have been nice to have the words Clinton actually said; must have been worse) but presuming it is accurate, Clinton makes a claim ("...there is time to fix Social Security") and then, in the same sentence, contradicts her claim ("...blamed Republican presidential candidates for scaring voters by saying it has problems")
Just par for Hillary.
Not until the Chelsea administration. These people will never go away.
Hey Hill Baby...”You can run but you cannot hide”
Think of the bright side. By the time my generation is ready to retire social security will be long gone but euthanasia will be routine.
Does that Bag-o-Rags ever answer a question in a straight-forward manner?
They really are smoking crack, aren't they?
Hillary will change her position on abortion in time. The power of the pro life movement can influence even the staunchest opponent. Only a matter of time.
Clinton initially avoided the question by making a comment on the large red hat Duncalf wore.
Pant Suit Hill leading by example.
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