"on behalf of the common good."
Posted on 04/24/2015 12:14:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
David Gibson suggested this might be Hillary Clinton’s “clinging to guns and religion” moment, and he may be right — assuming she survives the corruption scandals in the first place. Last night, Hillary told the Women in the World Summit that the path to Abortion Nirvana will only open up by changing religion, culture, and values to accommodate it:
“Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don’t count for much if they’re not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice — not just on paper,” Clinton said.
“Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will,” she explained. “And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed. As I have said and as I believe, the advancement of the full participation of women and girls in every aspect of their societies is the great unfinished business of the 21st century and not just for women but for everyone — and not just in far away countries but right here in the United States.”
In one sense, this shows just how extreme the pro-abortion caucus actually is. As Hillary admits here — albeit unwittingly — the at-will destruction of the unborn goes against religious beliefs, long-held cultural values, and the structural “biases” that exist to recognize the value of human life. That’s what the “clump of cells” fallacy has to overcome, and as Hillary and the Left have discovered, it’s a tall order. And it’s not just abortion, but also same-sex marriage and forced participation in it, euthanasia dressed up as “right to die” movements, and the rest.
Politically speaking, this kind of hostility to religion plays well … among the “safe space,” “trigger warning” crowd. Running for president on the basis of promising to use the power of government to change “deep seated cultural codes [and] religious beliefs” might be the most honest progressive slogan in history, but it’s not going to endear Hillary to the people who got offended by Barack Obama’s “bitterly clinging” comments — which she exploited in 2008 to paint herself as the friend of those denizens of middle America. Those voters will now see the real Hillary Clinton, the one who dismisses their faith just the same as Obama did, and this time publicly rather than in a private fundraiser.
What does Hillary do to counter this? I’m waiting to hear If you like your religion, you can keep your religion. That will fit the progressive pattern well.
Update: Matt Lewis writes that “Hillary lets the veil slip,” irony apparently intended:
Regardless of how one feels about gay rights or the abortion debate, it is interesting that liberals are finally getting around to openly confessing something all of us sort of know — yet few will say out loud: Achieving a liberal social agenda will necessarily require first extirpating many “deep-seated” Christian values and tenets.
We’ve been pointing this out since well before the “bitter clinger” comments from Obama. But the masks — excuse me, veils — are indeed coming off. Progressivism is indeed a jealous idol, one that does not tolerate a God before it.
The right to kill helpless human beings.
Live childbirth is not the issue. Imposed stillbirth is a moral travesty. Killing babies is not culturally advanced. It is morally retrograde. Ask Hill about killing her grandchild.
Abortion is the sacred rite on the altar of the Leftists. They will never negotiate nor compromise.
Gaffe: When a politician accidentally says what they are thinking.
That is the only right that liberals hold to be absolute.
100% evil fascism
Hey Hitlery, I think the Pope is visiting your pal O this fall...you can lobby him to change his stance on doctrine.
These people who say everyone has their own truth sure spend a lot of time and energy denouncing mine.
She sounds like Rand Paul.
Rand Paul speaks:
“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”
“The thing is about abortion—and about a lot of things—is that I think people get tied up in all these details of, sort of, you’re this or this or that, or you’re hard and fast (on) one thing or the other,” Paul told Elliott. “I’ve supported both bills with and without (exceptions), you know. In general, I am pro-life.
And I get so mixed up...everything is health, safety and welfare...or "for the children"....yet you believe killing babies should be some function of government.....some insane right....
It goes against human nature. You don't have to be a church goer...just have a conscience.
The bitter clinger episode didn’t hurt Obama. Neither did spread the wealth around. Media didn’t notice.
BUMP
“Dissent is patriotic” - 2008
has become
Your “beliefs have to be changed”
For Hillary, pacifying the devil by giving him the bloodlust he demands, is priority number one.
"on behalf of the common good."
It must be remembered that Hillary Clinton has been an advocate for legalization of “Late Term Abortion,” indeed of “Full Term Abortion.”
Whatever else she may be, just comparing her views to those of Americans generally, she is clearly an abortion extremist. And that’s a very gentle criticism.
I wonder if Hitlary would have been happy had Chelsea aborted her granddaughter..whenever I see Hillary Clinton hold a baby on TV I know she looks at that child and wishes he/she had been aborted
That seems to be true and what a statement that is about their character.
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