Posted on 01/02/2008 6:12:07 PM PST by libh8er
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- At a campaign stop in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told an audience that she favors abortion. Clinton meant her comments to come across in the same moderate tone former President Bill Clinton, but the way she phrased her position could come back to haunt her.
Abortion advocates frequently insist they don't support abortions but want to keep them legal as an option for women.
Clinton, like other pro-abortion politicians, has used the "safe, legal and rare" mantra as a way to tone down their stridently pro-abortion views and voting records against bans on partial-birth abortions or tax-funded abortions.
Normally politicians say "abortions should be safe, legal and rare" but don't talk about their own position supporting or opposing them. Clinton changed and went a different direction.
“I am in favor of abortion being safe, legal and rare,” she said.
As if noticing that she told the audience she favored abortion, she quickly added, “I would do everything to make it as rare as possible.”
But, MSNBC's Tucker Carlson in November questioned whether that was really the case.
"Has she ever suggested placing any restriction of any kind on abortion, limiting for instance abortion for sex selection? Or any restriction, of any kind. Ever? I must have missed it. Has she?" Tucker asked.
Last month, 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.
She simply said she has worked to keep abortion "safe, legal, rare."
She’s in favor of a greater killer than terrorism...wonderful
I really loathe liberalism
Baby killing. What a great platform to run on.
Might make a good campaign commercial.
Gee, there’s a shocker!
Those 50 million aborted babies are what should be driving the economy in the coming years. As it is, all the Hildebeast can think to do is to fill the gap with illegal aliens.
“Baby killing. What a great platform to run on.”
Yeah ... it’s hard to believe people advocate it.
if somehow infants started being born with a million dollars coming out of the womb with them, than Hillary would be pro life and against abortion. It is politics people, and nothing more.
And several of the remaining un-aborted people are going to be on welfare so they won’t get jobs either. Our politicians are selling our country out.
50 million dead...and they whine about the 3600 dead in Iraq.
Hillary Clinton is a hypocrite. How can she favor abortion, but continue to campaign with Chelsea???
I would like her to explain how and when she's done this. Preferably during a debate.
Daddy Hubbell may have been against abortion.
Well stated.
well I must say, I’m in favor of it too...but only for her!
“I am in favor of abortion being safe, legal and rare,” she said.”
The exact line as her husband years ago.
She stole the line.
Then make it retroactive and jump in front of your tour bus. Parasite.
Hellary speaketh with fork tongueth!
Did anyone out there not already know this?
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