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Hillary Clinton tells UN: No human progress without abortion-on-demand
lifesitenews.com ^ | Thu Mar 13, 2014 | Kirsten Andersen

Posted on 03/15/2014 11:14:26 AM PDT by Rashputin

Hillary Clinton tells UN: No human progress without abortion-on-demand

by Kirsten Andersen

NEW YORK CITY, March 13, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, believes it is a “bedrock truth” that abortion restrictions hamper human progress, and any efforts to improve women’s rights must begin with increased access to contraception and abortion.

Addressing the United Nations for International Women’s Day, Clinton told her audience, “There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women’s reproductive health and rights. That is a bedrock truth.”

Expanding access to so-called ‘family planning services’ like contraception and abortion, Clinton said, “must be the starting point for work today” when it comes to women’s rights.

Clinton said that even the United States, which has some of the most lenient abortion laws of any developed Western nation, falls short when it comes to giving women free access to abortion-on-demand.

“This remains the great unfinished business of the 21st century,” Clinton said. “No country in the world, including my own, has achieved full participation.”

Abortion access as a fundamental human right has long been a core principle for Mrs. Clinton. On the very first day of her husband Bill Clinton’s presidency in 1993, which nearly coincided with the 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, she pushed him to sign five executive orders authorizing federal funding for and involvement with abortion – both of which had been banned under Presidents Bush and Reagan.

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While her husband’s staff thought it was too soon to make such a controversial move, Mrs. Clinton strongly disagreed. Biographer Carl Bernstein wrote in his 2007 book A Woman in Charge, “The milestone anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in Hillary’s view, was the perfect opportunity to move the new presidency on course unambiguously in terms of women’s rights, signal the religious right that its decade of dominance in regard to such personal questions was over.”

As first lady, Mrs. Clinton chaired the task force overseeing the development of the president’s ultimately disastrous attempt at transitioning the U.S. into a universal health care system. She promised that under the Clinton plan, abortion “would be widely available,” even promising federal funding for the controversial new abortion drug RU-486 – which she had been instrumental in fast-tracking through the FDA approval process. Mrs. Clinton was also instrumental in making Plan B, the so-called “morning-after pill,” legal in America.

At a 1994 UN conference on population and development in Cairo, the Clintons stacked the U.S. delegation with pro-abortion representatives who pressured world leaders to include access to abortion in their definition of “reproductive health care,” which was about to be declared a fundamental human right. Ultimately, the push failed, and the Cairo document went forward without abortion enshrined in its definition of basic reproductive health care. But the following year, Mrs. Clinton made world headlines with her speech at the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, in which she again spoke strongly in favor of “choice.”

More recently, as Secretary of State, Clinton told the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro that she was disappointed they had once again failed to enshrine abortion-on-demand as a basic human right. "While I am very pleased that this year's outcome document endorses sexual and reproductive health and universal access to family planning, to reach our goals in sustainable development we also have to ensure women's reproductive rights,” Clinton said.

She promised that with or without UN backing, the U.S. would continue to lead the charge to expand access to elective abortion around the world.


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Thoughts from the democrat fascist "front runner" for 2016.
1 posted on 03/15/2014 11:14:26 AM PDT by Rashputin
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To: Rashputin

Women’s rights = legal murder

Makes sense

/sarc


2 posted on 03/15/2014 11:17:29 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Rashputin

Human progress my butt! I wonder what the Muslim nations at the UN had to say about that one?


3 posted on 03/15/2014 11:17:34 AM PDT by brooklyn dave
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To: Rashputin

If Americans elect this monster to be their next President, this country deserves whatever happens to it.


4 posted on 03/15/2014 11:18:49 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

With the child we have in there now, we already do deserve whatever happens.


5 posted on 03/15/2014 11:19:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: Rashputin

Pure EVIL!

Killing babies IS NOT PROGRESS!!!!!

Gehenna is not new.


6 posted on 03/15/2014 11:21:54 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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To: DoughtyOne

We can’t execute that guy on death row, HE MAY BE INNOCENT!

But go ahead and kill that baby. It may be guilty of something.
/s


7 posted on 03/15/2014 11:22:01 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITES)
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To: Rashputin

What right did she have to “fast track” anything
through the FDA?


8 posted on 03/15/2014 11:24:03 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: brooklyn dave

They prefer to kill them after they are born.


9 posted on 03/15/2014 11:27:23 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: bicyclerepair
In the eyes of the fascist Eugenics crowd that infant IS guilty of something. It's far more often than not guilty of having minority parents from a group the fascists want to be rid of.

The stupid white folks who abort their children fall into the category of either collateral damage or too stupid to live.

10 posted on 03/15/2014 11:28:25 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

From an old country song:

Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell


11 posted on 03/15/2014 11:28:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Rashputin

Since Hillary loves abortion so much..maybe she can do a post abortion on HERSELF..I know I wouldn’t miss her..I think Reagan said it best, why is it that abortion lovers have themselves, never been aborted


12 posted on 03/15/2014 11:28:38 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bicyclerepair

oh, and let’s not forget to protect the baby seals!


13 posted on 03/15/2014 11:28:41 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

as a great woman once said... what difference doe it make.


14 posted on 03/15/2014 11:29:07 AM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: Rashputin

You have to kill humans to save them.../sarc


15 posted on 03/15/2014 11:31:13 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Rashputin

Save us from Hillary Clinton, a shallow-minded, power-hungry, ravenous harpy.


16 posted on 03/15/2014 11:32:45 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Breto

She is simply despicable. At least the gloves are off, no equivocation.

According to her world view, too many of the wrong kind of child is being born. This must be stopped! She would have fit in perfectly in Nazi Germany, or Lenin’s Russia.


17 posted on 03/15/2014 11:33:17 AM PDT by maica (We are seeing an interesting mixture of malice and incompetence at healthcare.gov)
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To: G Larry

21st Century Moloch.


18 posted on 03/15/2014 11:34:00 AM PDT by ruesrose (The Anchor Holds)
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To: Rashputin

“progressives” are now about asserting their foundation of eugenics as a fundamental right.


19 posted on 03/15/2014 11:34:00 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Breto
None.

But don't pretend the ROP is any defender of the innocent.

Inside or outside of the womb, infanticide is infanticide.

20 posted on 03/15/2014 11:34:33 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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