WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton waded back into the highly charged abortion debate Tuesday, charging that a GOP cost-cutting measure will boost the number of abortions in the United States. Clinton, D-N.Y., said a piece of a pending deficit-reduction measure would indirectly raise the number of abortions in the United States by leaving poor women with less Medicaid coverage for contraception.
"I sadly predict that if this measure stays in the bill ... the number of abortions will go up, the human and financial costs will go up, and many women will be really out of luck," Clinton said in a Senate floor debate on the bill, which is headed for a close vote later Tuesday or early Wednesday.
The former first lady spoke out against language in the bill that would allow states to choose whether to offer family planning services under Medicaid, a government-funded health care program for the poor.
Speaking on the Senate floor, she claimed the result of the proposed change in Medicaid rules would leave more poor women without contraception, causing more unwanted pregnancies and therefore more abortions.
"We obviously have very strong opinions and deeply held convictions about abortion, but are we also divided about contraception and family planning? Are we not in this body committed to reducing the number of abortions? Apparently we're not," Clinton said.
Gee, wouldn't passing legislation that stopped federal funding for birth control abortions make that problem go away? Nahhh...just pass out the rubbers and let's party!
-MZ
7 comments:
It is not the responsibility of the govt or taxpayers to provide contraception to anyone any more than it is our responsibility to provide them with dildos and massage oil.
Pleasure at the expense of your fellow man is not a right.
dildo!!! er...uh...i mean ditto, rwm - what you said. sheeeesh!
Did Bill adopt Hillary or was it the other way around. I know those folks in R-Kin-Saw have very strange values and customs that can effect the DNA structure. It's really too bad the people of her home sty can't recall her and replace her with Davy Crockett (a.k.a. Fess Parker). I know he's from Tennessee, but he'd make a much better congressman than she ever would. Besides, he looks much better in a coonskin cap than she would in a mink coat.
ahem, michael, i live in arkansas and that is the only offense i take to your statement.
however, hillary in any house is akin to hanging a chandelier in a barn. she is evil, mean and nasty. i have met no other women like her in arkansas. she is like a chameleon on a fence. lizards are not cute.
Hillary is just flashing her legs at the swooning he-women of the left.
Anyone with half a memory knows her nature.
She is the predatory and soulless incarnation of avarice.
In other words, she is pure commie.
check out the article above this.
kuhnkat - she being the barn! sorry.
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