Posted on 02/18/2008 5:45:17 AM PST by NYer
Steubenville, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Former president Bill Clinton made a campaign stop for Hillary in Steubenville, Ohio on Sunday and found himself greeted by more than 100 pro-life students from nearby Steubenville University. According to eye witnesses accounts, Clinton lost his temper and lashed out at the pro-life students during the speech.
Clinton's heated response came after being questioned on his support of abortion-on-demand.
"I gave you the answer. We disagree with you," Clinton said about the position he and Hillary Clinton hold on abortion.
Clinton relied on the old argument that pr-life advocates want to put women in prison, even though abortion bans have never targeted women because they are a second victim in the abortion process.
"You want to criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree,” he said of the pro-life advocates.
“If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison. And you won't say you want to do that because you know that because you know that you wouldn't have a lick of political support,” he added.
Clinton claimed his police and those that Hillary Clinton supports are doing more to reduce abortions even though both have steadfastly opposed bills to limit abortions, such as a ban on partial-birth abortions not spending taxpayer money on abortions.
“Now, the issue is you can't name me anybody presently in politics that did more to introduce policies that reduce the number of real abortions instead of the hot air putting out to tear people up and make votes by dividing America,” he said.
Billy Valentine, one of the Franciscan University of Steubenville students who helped organize the protest, told LifeNews.com that he was surprised Clinton would go to Steubenville after hundreds of students told John Kerry he was wrong on supporting abortion.
“Perhaps national Democrats will finally realize that they can't take the heat from Steubenville pro-life students," he said.
"I have been amazed by the stupidity of these pro-abortion Democrats who think they can come campaign anywhere near Steubenville, especially after the utter embarrassment John Kerry went through in 2004 when he came here,” he added.
Later, Clinton said Hillary should become the Democratic nominee because she will stand up to pro-life advocates.
“This is not your rally. I heard you. That's another thing you need is a president, somebody who will stick up for individual rights and not be pushed around, and she won't,” he said.
I am definately voting for Hillary now. /sarc
"Political support"is the only thing important to the bent one. Not saving lives. Sick.
Keep up the “good” work, Bill. More nails for Hill’s coffin.
Oh boy, Bubba opens his mouth yet again. How very entertaining. He is a complete, morally bankrupt, idiot.
I sometimes wonder if during Bubba’s quadruple bypass operation, Bubba’s brain suffered an oxygen deprivation. Nothing else makes much sense.:)
Funny clip; he actually says to the crowd that he is against abortion.
Looks like the act has gone stale......finally!
George Orwell, paging Mr. Gerorge Orwell.
The man lost his moral sensibilities decades ago and now he's losing his mind.
Sounds just like what he always says. You want to do (fill in something extreme), but you wont say that’s what you want to do because you’re dishonest, and you oppose my policy because you want to divide america. SOS from the stainmaker.
no, early in his presidency, the Toon went to Chillicothe, Ohio to a student assembly. A boy, junior or senior, asked him the same kind of question, and Toon came back with the same argument, and venom. It was so over the top, Tom Brokaw rolled his eyes a bit.
He can't help himself,
He is who he is.
Billy, it’s not that we pro-lifers want to put anyone, mothers, doctors or anyone else, in prison. It’s that we don’t want innocent human life taken in the first place. We want a moral leader to advance the simple proposition that the life inside a mother (and notice even Clinton calls them “mothers”— how can one be a mother of a non-human being???) is a human life, deserving of protection. The idea is to prevent the criminal act, not simply to punish it once it has been accomplished.
Gosh that looks like ME from the back! (Just kidding!)
They wouldn’t let me anywhere near the Court Jester!!
Well put.
He is so used to getting away with this that he doesn’t know he’s doing it.
The Clintons answer everything in political terms. He even uses that as the ultimate support in his answer.
Electing her will get us more of this “ twofer management”
Maybe the beast is slowly introducing poison into his food. It’s happened in the past.
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