“You might very well think that, Madam Secretary. I couldn’t possibly comment.”
Posted on 03/15/2014 11:14:26 AM PDT by Rashputin
Hillary Clinton tells UN: No human progress without abortion-on-demand
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.
Does she mention on whose demand?
Hillary has such an impoverished, destitute heart that if it were a nation, Haiti would be sending it aid.
There is no love in it, no mother in it, no compassion in it. Those little babies should be held close and loved, and the tenderness will be rewarded with the knowledge that the helpless and innocent little child has been protected. How can any Mother not see that?
instant brain pain. Used to feel it when talking with a psychopathic family. Going to take some aspirin.
Haven’t seen that pic in a while. The staged “suicide” of Vince Foster in Ft. Marcy Park. I am still in wonderment that that murder has not been solved. Is there even a “cold case” person still looking at it. Oh, I forgot. It was ruled a suicide so case closed! The Clintons are despicable. Both of them!
Yes it is Dutch. Yes it is.
Disgraceful!
“You might very well think that, Madam Secretary. I couldn’t possibly comment.”
Life under Hillary’s rule is going to suck as bad or worse than that under the Obama regime.
And boys and men are wearing yards of fabric when they go in the water to swim!
This symbolizes more than anything the emasculation of boys and the messing of the minds of girls, to the severe detriment of society's future health.
Inside or outside of the womb, infanticide is infanticide.
agree
I've been having them pop into my mind again and again since you posted them and as I've seen various things while I was out and around yesterday.
Regards
What an evil, senseless creature.
Oh man... I should have read your post first. I just posted the same thing.
She’s like someone demanding that a life of a child be terminated not later than seven months but keep killers alive on death row for over twenty years. Liberals cry that maybe 300 people have been executed during the same time as Roe vs Wade killed over 50 million children.
Good to see you... How are you?
How'ya doing???
Get well with those wisdom teeth.
More later.
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