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Safe, Legal, and Hillary
By George Neumayr
Published 1/27/2005 12:08:21 AM
Hillary Clinton’s idea of an overture to pro-life groups is to blame those who oppose abortion for its spread. This line of reasoning is comically convoluted, but Hillary Clinton has been trying it out anyway, saying President Bush is responsible for the rise in abortion in some states because he won’t fund her favorite prophylactic programs.
But even in extending a thorn branch to pro-life groups, Hillary Clinton draws gasps, head shaking, and troubled silence from pro-abortion activists. So reported the press after she said earlier in the week that “We can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic, choice to many, many women.” Notice that she didn’t say it is a tragic choice for the aborted babies, only for the women who get abortions.
But this was still too much for the crowd. To them abortion is a cause not for tears but for sighs of relief. After the speech, Martha Stahl, director for public relations and marketing for Northern Adirondack Planned Parenthood, disputed the characterization of abortion as a tragic choice, telling the New York Times that “we see women express relief more than anything else that they have the freedom to choose.”
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