Though the above proposal is made half-jokingly, you can see where Clinton's passion lies in a YouTube clip that's featured on Salon. In their Friday Broadsheet, "Hillary says it all" as she responds to pro-life Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ) who keeps pummeling her about abortion as he asks if "the Obama administration [is] seeking in any way to weaken or overturn pro-life laws in Latin American or African countries."
Clinton's rebuttal isn't snide or aggressive. Instead, it's heartfelt -- a very public confession of the agony she's witnessed because basic health information and access has been denied to women in various nations around the globe. Her quote below is just a small excerpt of the entire response which runs for nearly three-and-a-half minutes:
We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women's health, and reproductive health includes access to abortion that I believe should be safe, legal and rare. I spent a lot of my time trying to bring down the rate of abortions and it has been my experience that good family planning and good medical care brings down the rate of abortion. Keeping women and men in ignorance and denied the access to services actually increases the rate of abortion.Say what you will about Clinton, but she can articulate the issues and the essential points in the abortion debate better than nearly anyone else...and she can do it off the top of her head without notes. Whether she's First Lady, history's closest runner-up to a presidential nomination, or Secretary of State, she is a woman to be reckoned with.
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