Clinton Says in New Book Abortion “is Central to Women’s Rights and Women’s Health”

By Dave Andrusko

National Right to Life

Let me be clear: I will skim but never read What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s 512-page-long apologetic for her disastrous 2016 presidential campaign. Every carefully choreographic leak that preceded today’s official publication tells us what anyone who has followed Mrs. Clinton for more than a minute would have predicted: everyone not named Clinton is responsible for a defeat virtually no one saw coming.

In her review Emily Jashinsky, writing for the Washington Examiner, addresses what Clinton writes about abortion.

Remember: when it comes to abortion, Clinton is the True Believer’s True Believer. There is never an abortion that is unacceptable and, she fervently believes, the beneficence of abortion should be exported to the four corners of the globe–all paid for (at home and abroad) with our tax dollars.

Judging by the excerpts Jashinsky quotes, the book is more of the same. To be sure there is a nod in the direction of opening the party to pro-life candidates (nothing new there) which is immediately qualified out of existence (nothing new there, either). For example,

The former secretary of state also clarifies that she “[believes] there’s room in our party for a wide range of personal views on abortion.”

She even touts how her vice presidential running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, was “a Democrat personally opposed to abortion because of his Catholic faith…” Then the “but”

but supportive of women’s rights as a matter of law and policy.”

Get it? You can personally be pro-life and a Democrat as long as you do not carry those convictions into the public square.

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