Rep. Chris Smith / Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Posted on 04/23/2009 9:49:13 AM PDT by NYer
.- During a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) questioned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about whether the Obama administration is seeking to weaken or overturn pro-life laws and policies in other countries. Secretary Clinton responded to his questions, affirming that the U.S. government’s definition of reproductive health includes access to abortion.
Rep. Smith began his comments by criticizing Secretary Clinton’s reception of the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in Houston in March. Secretary Clinton said she was in “awe” of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and claimed her “life and leadership” was “one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race.”
Secretary Clinton also said that Sanger’s work was “not done.” Rep. Smith said Sanger’s work was indeed “transformational,” but “not for the better if one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, weak, disabled, a person of color, an unborn child, or among the many so-called undesirables Sanger would exclude and exterminate from the human race.”
“Sanger’s prolific writings drip with contempt for those she considers to be unfit to live,” Rep. Smith said.
Noting that he had read many of Sanger’s articles and books, Rep. Smith characterized Sanger as an “unapologetic eugenicist and racist” who said “the most merciful thing a family does for one of its infant members is to kill it” and also characterized eugenics as the “most adequate and thorough avenue” to solve “racial, political and social problems.”
He quoted Sanger’s book “Pivot of Civilization” in which she decried charitable work as “not merely superficial and near-sighted” but also as concealing “a stupid cruelty” that leads to “the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents.”
Rep. Smith said it was “extraordinarily difficult” to understand how a Secretary of State could be in “awe” of Sanger, saying she had openly professed views “antithetical to protecting human rights.”
He also charged Planned Parenthood with killing over 305,000 children by abortion in the U.S. and “millions more” worldwide in 2007 alone.
Pressing Secretary Clinton about the policies of the Obama administration, he asked whether the administration seeks to “weaken or overturn” pro-life laws and policies in African and Latin American countries either “directly” or by funding non-governmental organizations such as Planned Parenthood, or through “multilateral organizations” such as the U.N., African Union, or the Organization of American States.
He also asked whether the United States’ definitions of the terms “reproductive health,” “reproductive services” or “reproductive rights” include abortion.
Responding to Rep. Smith, Secretary Clinton avoided commenting on Margaret Sanger or her reception of the Margaret Sanger Award.
She said she “deeply respected” Rep. Smith’s concerns and views, but said “we obviously have a profound disagreement.”
Saying she had visited hospitals in Brazil where “half the women” were greeting new babies and the other half were “fighting for their lives against botched abortions,” she remarked that she had also been in African countries where “12 and 13 year old girls are bearing children.”
She also claimed that the denial of “family planning” in Asian countries “consigns women to lives of oppression and hardship.”
“We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women’s health. And reproductive health includes access to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal, and rare,” Secretary Clinton continued, claiming she has spent “a lot of my time” trying to bring down the rate of abortions.
She argued that keeping women and men in “ignorance” and denying them access to “services” actually increases the rate of abortion.
“We are now an Administration that will protect the rights of women, including their rights to reproductive health care,” she said.
Commenting later on Wednesday about Clinton’s testimony, Rep. Smith said it shows the Obama Administration is plotting to conduct a foreign policy that spreads abortion all over the world at U.S. taxpayers’ expense.
“It is evident that Mrs. Clinton and President Obama want to force the tragedy of abortion upon women around the world especially and including in countries where democratically elected leaders want to continue to protect their unborn children,” Smith said.
“There are other ways in which both mother and baby are protected, cared for and helped— with food, nutrition, clean water and life-affirming healthcare,” he said. “Secretary Clinton’s inability to see this will mean more babies will die and more women will suffer the consequence of abortion as a result of U.S. foreign policy overseas.”
These people are just flat out vile.
How can that be? One individual is terminated and a second is subjected to physical and mental shock that lasts a lifetime..
Does President 0 understand that Hillary! condones the Black Holocaust as proven by her Margaret Sanger award?
These people sicken me.
Yeah, sure she wants abortion to be rare - BS. Please provide any evidence of your spending any time working on bringing down abortion rates you lying witch.
“These people are just flat out vile.”
What else do you expect from people who avoid God, but embrace everything that is evil?
Hillary Clinton will be reminded of this when she stands before the righteous Judge.
It’s ok to kill babies that are unborn, but don’t you dare kill that tree or plant or emit dangerous CO2 that will harm our dear environment.
Liberalism is a complete and utter mental disorder. The logic these baffoons lack is astounding.
“Reproductive Health” is a euphemism.
Here’s the accurate definition: Murder.
OMG.
LLS
Wow. Hospitals - plural. Where are they? We should send a news team to document this awful situation.
Being in the 0bama administration means you can say anything you want, no matter how preposterous, and nobody in the media will ask followup questions or request documentation.
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“Secretary Clinton responded to his questions, affirming that the U.S. government’s definition of reproductive health includes access to abortion.”
Hey Clinton since reproducing implies another individual how does abortion affect the health of the offspring?
‘Reproducing’ - the act or process of reproducing ; specifically : the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring and which fundamentally consists of the segregation of a portion of the parental body by a sexual or an asexual process and its subsequent growth and differentiation into a new individual.
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
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