Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while discussing her position on abortion, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said under our laws currently “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
Partial transcript as follows:
TODD: Give me your straightforward position on the issue of abortion.
CLINTON: My position is in line with Row v. Wade, that women have a constitutional right to make these moment intimate and personal and difficult decisions based on their conscience, their faith, their family, their doctor. And that it is something that really goes to the core of privacy. And I want to maintain that constitutional protection. Under Roe v. Wade as you know there is room for reasonable kinds of restrictions after a certain point in time. I think the life, the health of the mother are clear. And those should be included even as one moves on in pregnancy. So I have been — I’ve had the same position for many years.
TODD: When or if does an unborn child have constitutional rights?
CLINTON: Well, under our laws currently, that is not something that exists. The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights. Now, that doesn’t mean that we don’t do everything we possibly can in the vast majority of instances to, you know, help a mother who is carrying a child and wants to make sure that child will be healthy, to have appropriate medical support. It doesn’t mean that, you know, don’t do everything possible to try to fulfill your obligations. But it does not include sacrificing the woman’s right to make decisions. And I think that’s an important distinction that under Roe v. Wade we’ve had refined under our Constitution.
#1: rlk To: cranky (#0)
Nor does anybody but Hillary and her minions. The high spot in that coarse loudmouth's lifetime level of intellectual prowess and empathy was her statement that Bill was a hard dog to keep on the porch. For those living the same lifestyle as her and her husband, her statement elicited howls of laughter and support.
Those two were interpersonally sterile and formed a nominal marriage of convenience in political collusion to politically support their mutual mission of selling the destructive leftist counterculture.
rlk posted on 2016-04-03 21:20:40 Reply Private Reply
#2: cranky To: rlk (#1)
And evidently, no unalienable rights endowed by a Creator, either.
cranky posted on 2016-04-04 09:23:10 Reply Private Reply
#3: Stoner To: cranky (#0)
So says the spawn of satan.
Stoner posted on 2016-04-04 11:36:56 Reply Private Reply
#4: ConservingFreedom To: cranky (#0)
No they don't. The penumbral emanationism undergirding Roe v Wade was hallucinatory nonsense - just another bloody step down the trail blazed by Wickard v Filburn's "substantial effect" fabrication.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 12:13:03 Reply Private Reply
#5: rlk To: cranky (#2)
Hillary has been on a crusade being angry with the world for 50 years. She believes it is the sign of being an intellectual. The elite leftist colleges told her so when they propagandized her.
rlk posted on 2016-04-04 12:23:19 Reply Private Reply
#6: cranky To: ConservingFreedom (#4)
Ah, Wickard.
What a travesty that was and is.
An abomination that keeps on giving.
cranky posted on 2016-04-04 13:19:06 Reply Private Reply
#7: ConservingFreedom To: cranky (#6)
It's gospel truth to some alleged conservatives - in no small part because it justifies the Reefer Madness war on drugs at the federal level.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 13:22:36 Reply Private Reply
#8: SOSO To: cranky, All (#0)
It is amazing how no-one in the MSM attacks her for a totally fallacious comment. The law, RvW, never speaks about an unborn child. It only says that a fetus is not a person (exact word) per the meaning of the 14th Amendment. Further the majority opinion plainly states that if the unborn fetus was a person then it would have the protection of the 14th Amendment and Roe's case would be lost. It further states that even Roe acknowledged that as true.
So here we have Hillary saying that a unborn person does not have constitutional rights when even RvW says that it would have and no-one in the MSM challenges her.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-04 15:10:40 Reply Private Reply