Hillary Clinton
Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton came out swinging against Republican rivals Jeb Bush and Scott Walker for their opposition to Planned Parenthood, saying the two want to defund the organization and that’s tantamount to an attack on women.
“Republicans like Scott Walker and Jeb Bush are calling to defund Planned Parenthood, the country’s leading provider or reproductive healthcare, and they are joined by Republicans in Congress who will not waste a minute in voting to make that happen,” she said, in a video message reported by the Hill.
And the political punch line: “If this feels like a full-on assault on women’s health, that’s because it is,” Clinton said.
Clinton also said Republicans want to keep women from accessing cancer screenings and birth control, two other services provided by Pllanned Parenthood.
While the recent videos showing some in the organization may be tied to the selling of baby parts is “disturbing,” she said, Planned Parenthood “for more than a century has done a lot of really good work for women.” And she went on, the Hill reported: “Unfortunately, these attacks aren’t new. They’re more of the same.”
She specifically chastised Walker for defunding the organization during his service as Wisconsin governor and Bush for “gutting funds for crucial family planning programs,” she said.
And one more Republican she took a swing at was Texas Gov. Rick Perry, for signing a law that ultimately shuttered some of the abortion clinics in the state.
“I’m proud to stand with Planned Parenthood,” Clinton said.
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