Hillary's stance on Women's rights [View all]

[Agschmid]

First a few disclaimers since this is my first OP about the 2016 election and potential candidates...

- Uncontested primaries suck.
- I am not in anyone's camp at this time.
- I hate lies and misrepresentations.
- I will vote for the democratic nominee.

Now that those are out of the way let's try this again...

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Hillary's stance on Women's rights:

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Eight years after shying away from the historic nature of her campaign, Hillary Clinton is putting women at the center of her agenda as she contemplates a second bid to become the nation's first woman president.

In recent weeks, Clinton has trumpeted equal pay for women in speeches and panel discussions across the country.

She has also called for a “movement” to help women at work, arguing that women face not only a “glass ceiling” but a floor that could collapse underneath them, erasing the gains made to win equality between the sexes.
And this week, she announced a new $600 million effort through the Clinton Global Initiative to help disadvantaged girls attend secondary school. Read More...

Plan B: Fought for years to get “Plan B” contraceptive on the market

In the last few years, we’ve seen major breakthroughs in research and effectiveness of contraceptives. For example, Plan B is a new emergency contraceptive that can prevent a pregnancy after another contraceptive has failed or after unprotected sex. I fought for years to get Plan B on the market, so that fewer women will face the choice of abortion. It is now available for over-the-counter use by adult women. I have proposed Prevention First, a bill that focuses on prevention of unwanted pregnancies through comprehensive education, emphasizing responsible decision-making and expanded access to contraception. With these efforts, it’s my hope that the abortion rate will fall further.
Source: 2006 intro to It Takes A Village, by H. Clinton, p.301 , Dec 12, 2006

Abortion: "Keep abortion safe, legal & rare into next century"

On January 22, 1999, Hillary took an unprecedented step for a first lady by delivering a speech to NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League, the premier advocacy group for legal, unrestricted abortion. Speaking to the group in DC, she stated her goal of “keeping abortion safe, legal and rare into the next century,” a slogan that would become the mantra for her position. She shared revealing remarks beyond conventional pro-choice sentiments: “I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting the decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.”
Source: God and Hillary Clinton, by Paul Kengor, p.191 , Jul 18, 2007

RU486 Availability: 1993 Health plan included RU-486 & widely available abortion.

Mrs. Clinton, during her efforts to revolutionize the health care industry, said 1993 that under her plan, abortion services “would be widely available.” This prompted anxieties over the prospect of taxpayer-funded abortions, sparking the Coates Amendment, which sought to strip abortion funding from the plan.
The first lady allowed for a “conscience exemption” in which doctors and hospitals would not be forced to perform abortions. Pro-lifers were relieved; still, they could not fathom that their tax dollars might be used to find what they saw as the deliberate destruction of innocent human life.
Mrs. Clinton’s words also ignited fears among moderate and conservative Christians over the availability of the abortion pill, RU-486, under her health care plan. One of her husband’s first acts in office was to push the pill to market through an expedited FDA approval process that was criticized by pro-lifers as allegedly too quick for the safety of the women who would take the pill.
Source: God and Hillary Clinton, by Paul Kengor, p.124-125 , Jul 18, 2007

Supreme Court: Yes it Matters... Overturning Roe v. Wade

Q: What kind of justice to the Supreme Court would you support?

A: I think the fate of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. If we take Gov. Bush at his word, his two favorite Justices are Scalia and Thomas, both of whom are committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, ending a woman’s right to choose. I could not go along with that. In the Senate, I will be looking very carefully at the constitutional views [indicating] as to what that nominee believes about basic, fundamental, constitutional rights.

Source: Senate debate in Manhattan Oct 8, 2000

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Hillary has even been rated by some organizations which are liberal/progressive or even conservative in nature and just for the heck of it here are those ratings:

National Right to Life Committee - Positions 0%
NARAL Pro-Choice America - Positions 100%
National Organization for Women - Positions 100%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund - Positions 100%
Democrats for Life of America - Positions 0%
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association - Positions 93%
Population Action International - Positions on Reproductive Health 100%
Human Rights Campaign - Positions 95%
American Civil Liberties Union - Positions 75%
National Breast Cancer Coalition - Positions 100%
Source.

Oh facts... you are always such a pain in the ass.