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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary Clinton: I Could Compromise on Abortion If It Included Exceptions For Mother's Health [View all]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/29/hillary_clinton_i_could_compromise_on_abortion_if_it_included_exceptions_for_mothers_health.htmlHILLARY CLINTON: My husband vetoed a very restrictive legislation on late-term abortions and he vetoed it at an event in the White House where we invited a lot of women who had faced this very difficult decision, that ought to be made based on their own conscience, their family, their faith, in consultation with doctors. Those stories left a searing impression on me. Women who think their pregnancy is going well and then wake up and find some really terrible problem. Women whose life is threatened if they carry their child to term, and women who are told by doctors that the child they're carrying will not survive.
Again, I am where I have been, which is that if there's a way to structure some kind of constitutional restriction that take into account the life of the mother and her health, then I'm open to that. But I have yet to see the Republicans willing to actually do that, and that would be an area, where if they included health, you could see constitutional action.
Again, I am where I have been, which is that if there's a way to structure some kind of constitutional restriction that take into account the life of the mother and her health, then I'm open to that. But I have yet to see the Republicans willing to actually do that, and that would be an area, where if they included health, you could see constitutional action.
"structure some kind of constitutional restriction"?!
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Hillary Clinton: I Could Compromise on Abortion If It Included Exceptions For Mother's Health [View all]
KamaAina
Feb 2016
OP
She was speaking of late term abortions. Republicans want to abolish them all together. nt
Fla Dem
Feb 2016
#86
You are reading it incorrectly. Defending late term abortion for women whose lives are in danger
emulatorloo
Feb 2016
#89
It's both. I've heard Bill Clinton use that phrase before, can't remember if it was before or after
yodermon
Feb 2016
#19
Exactly - Why they HELL did they endorse her, when she is willing to compromise on abortion for
kath
Feb 2016
#98
Attacking WOMEN'S RIGHTS now?! That's going to go over like a loud stinky fart in church.
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2016
#25
More people would sign up for the military if there was a constitutional restriction on
valerief
Feb 2016
#26
Gets endorsement from abortions rights groups, puts abortion on table.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#33
How about politicians - Dems or Reps - just keep their noses out of women's private choices?
Vinca
Feb 2016
#38
This post is misleading. The title line implies that Hillary was talking about all abortions.
StevieM
Feb 2016
#46
They are never going to vote for her, EVER, no matter what she changes her positions to
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Feb 2016
#85
It's about a national policy on ABORTION being written into the Constitution
kristopher
Feb 2016
#75
my daughter developed pre-eclamsia in her 3rd trimester (it's called HELLP Syndrome)
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#103
Well, he's in the Los Angeles area. His mom is trying to found a language academy for
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#112
Not really. Pro-choice republican...until she's willing to compromise on choice.
HooptieWagon
Feb 2016
#74
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2016
#61
I read that as "I could go with outlawing all abortions as long as the medical necessary ones
LiberalArkie
Feb 2016
#63
Sorry, Charlie. She's defending late term abortion for mothers whose lives are in danger
emulatorloo
Feb 2016
#90
Geez, she's talking about LATE TERM ABORTIONS! Not all abortions. She never said compromise.
Fla Dem
Feb 2016
#84
Abortion doesn't belong on the table, ever. No compromise, no quarter.
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
#128
Like I've been saying all along, Hillary Clinton is a 3rd-Way conservative Democrat.
Kip Humphrey
Feb 2016
#93