Posted on 03/01/2020 3:48:13 AM PST by Kaslin
Conservatives and pro-life Americans regularly challenge many in the media for their biased coverage in favor of abortion. But, as it turns out, a well-known abortion supporter and media-beloved figure – Hillary Clinton – is unhappy with their reporting too.
Glamour magazine staff writer Jenny Singer recently spoke with the former Secretary of State in an interview published on February 19. The piece went largely unnoticed, even though it contained a big name and a controversial issue: Hillary Clinton and abortion. Among other things, Clinton stressed that the press “don’t understand” the importance of “reproductive health.”
From the beginning of the interview, Singer fawned over the 72-year-old armed with “unerringly polite, acerbic takedowns,” including that “of the way the press treats abortion rights.” Clinton spoke via phone from a local clinic in Puerto Rico that partners with the Clinton Foundation to support pregnant women and new mothers. Her location ironically provided a springboard for Singer to ask about “reproductive rights,” along with climate change.
“For many millennial and Gen-Z women, the idea of bringing children onto an increasingly unlivable planet feels terrifying, or even inhumane,” Singer worried. She raised this concern with Clinton.
According to Clinton, that decision is a “highly personal choice.” For her, she said, “I think children give you a perspective on the future that gets you more activated.” (Born children, that is.)
Singer disagreed.
“[I]t’s hard to be hopeful—certainly to be so zanily optimistic that you think more people should be alive right now—while women disappear one by one from the Democratic primary stage, as if the election is a terrible murder-mystery dinner party,” she wrote.
And, for Singer, this phenomenon impacted the conversation on “reproductive rights.”
“As women and people of color exit the race, candidates are speaking less about women’s health and reproductive rights than ever,” she warned
But Clinton didn’t blame the candidates as much as she did the media.
“You know, the press has never taken reproductive health seriously,” Clinton urged. “And I know that from my own races—they don’t raise it, they don’t understand its importance.”
They certainly raised it during the 2016 presidential election though. From the beginning, the broadcast network news shows vocalized Planned Parenthood’s endorsement of Clinton, while remaining silent on pro-life leaders’ support of then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. And when Trump brought up abortion during the 2016 debates, the media sided with Clinton while “fact-checking” his “stupidity.”
Still, Clinton told Singer, “We have to do a better job of speaking up and educating people about why this is a critical issue for women.”
At another point, she consoled Singer, who complained that “Making your way through a world in which some believe fetuses are human even as they ignore the death rates of real, live women is depressing” just as is “living—and bringing life into—a world where the climate is out of control.”
“That’s exactly what powerful people want,” Singer summarized Clinton's response, which included recommending readers to volunteer at organizations like Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. “They want you to feel powerless.”
If anything, Singers’ piece – and its contents – prove that the media take abortion as “reproductive health” seriously. What the media don’t take seriously is abortion as the ending of a human life – a person.
Still, Clinton told Singer, “We have to do a better job of speaking up and educating people about why this is a critical issue for women.”
At another point, she consoled Singer, who complained that “Making your way through a world in which some believe fetuses are human even as they ignore the death rates of real, live women is depressing” just as is “living—and bringing life into—a world where the climate is out of control.”
“That’s exactly what powerful people want,” Singer summarized Clinton's response, which included recommending readers to volunteer at organizations like Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. “They want you to feel powerless.”
If anything, Singers’ piece – and its contents – prove that the media take abortion as “reproductive health” seriously. What the media don’t take seriously is abortion as the ending of a human life – a person.
The media regularly offer more coverage to events that promote abortion, like the Women’s March, than to rallies that celebrate life, including that of the unborn, such as the March for Life. Both events take place in Washington, D.C. in January, draw tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of attendees, and highlight women.
Even with President Trump’s historic appearance at the 2020 March for Life, the broadcast networks combined spent just 28 seconds on the event, according to NewsBusters’ Kristine Marsh.
Many in the media regularly repeat studies that they say show women don’t regret abortion, while overlooking the women who say that they do. They assume all women support abortion at the cost of censoring millions of pro-life women nationwide. They ignore abortionist horror stories from Kermit Gosnell to Ulrich “George” Klopfer. The list goes on.
Clinton is right that the media must cover issues like abortion more seriously – just not in the way that she suggests.
The lofty feel good label “Reproductive health” is killing your baby and getting away with it. Stupid people have to realize that the individual is responsible and has to answer for it come their time, Im sure “the government or Hillary said it was ok” will not do.
Ever notice there are videos out there of just about every aberration, every behavior, every act - but NEVER of a real abortion.
In ancient days, the people would loudly pound drums to drown out the screams of children as they were placed on a red hot plate when they were sacrificed to the demon Moloch.
Today, we simply drown out their screams in different ways.
If you read Roe vs Wade - not enough us do - the basis for legalizing abortion is the environmental concern for over population. The “unwanted” child should be aborted to save the earth. It is not surprising that since the famines predicted in the first world due to over population did not occur that global warming zealots have latched onto abortion to save the planet.
Every argument, from day one, that pro abortion advocates advance to support the heinous act is untrue. They must find an altruistic reason to kill a baby to salve their conscience. Over the years that legalized abortion has existed their consciences have shriveled and died. Abortion has always been an extreme form of birth control.
People who are capable of rationalizing the murder of babies for the common good are certainly capable of rationalizing mass murder of others for whatever political purpose that suits them.
The fact that Glamour Mag interviewed the Persistent Hag is reason enough to stay far away from this article.
“For many millennial and Gen-Z women, the idea of bringing children onto an increasingly unlivable planet feels terrifying, or even inhumane,” Singer worried. She raised this concern with Clinton.
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In America we need replacements. We aren’t adding people to the population, not counting illegal aliens.
And without Democrats, the place is a paradise compared to the rest of the world.
I wish the Beast’s mother and daddy had performed better reproductive health. Instead, they gave the world, HER!!
My uterus is not sick. The weather is fine.
The term “reproductive health” sounds so clinical and cold. But that’s the purpose. These monsters don’t want you to think of conception as a miracle from God.
Abortion aside..this Singer person is a real bummer.
And at times it felt like she was, more times than not, injecting her own personal opinions?
And of course moderate. The witch didn't mention men's reproductive health. You know they can get pregnant too, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.
One wonders about her retirement life.She must be miserable to know her day includes getting up, getting pissed off at her secret service minders, getting repissed at he philandering husband who failed to keep his promise and get her elected president.
Killing a full term baby before birth is reproductive health?
Hillary herself is the sole argument for abortion.
The left/socialists demand the slaughter be “free”, paid for by the government. This way, it becomes a true sacrament for them.
Mothers have killed 1.56 Billion people, just since 1980. 40 years...what’s that, close to 1.5 children per second. Sounds like mors vincit omnia. And isn’t the the motto of the atheists.
“Reproductive health” really means ABORTION.
Is abortion good for the health of the baby?
We know it is not good for the health of the mother.
The second is the born alive bill, must give life saving care to a born alive baby.
All in all on both bills, 6 Democrats voted with R's. Over 250 elected Democrats voted no on saving the baby from pain or saving the baby from murder once out of the womb. I asked my husband, "how can we live alongside these kinds of people?"
Abortion is really another name for human sacrifice. In the past, the some ancient peoples would perform human sacrifices for better lives, more wealth and power. How is that different than when a baby is aborted so the woman can have a better career or life? Just listen to celebrities talk about their abortions and substitute abortion with human sacrifice. It’s the same thing.
After having watched the abortion industry and the people supporting it since the 1970s, I have concluded several things.
1. Abortion is a modern form of eugenics that is being used to reduce expansion of certain minority race populations.
2. Abortion is really human sacrifice rather than healthcare.
3. Abortionists are many times legalized serial killers.
There is no way of getting around the horror that abortion is once you start looking at it objectively. I think that’s why the pro-abort crowd fears letting the mothers see the ultra sounds.
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