Hillary Clinton Answer On Abortion Leaves 'Pro-Life' Senator Speechless

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27. No. Rare = stigma

There is no stigma in terminating an unwanted pregnancy. Well, there shouldn't be. I understand the anti- crowd wants to make it shameful. We won't let them!

Making it rare means that those women who need abortions are probably victims of rape, incest, birth control failure, etc. And they will be harder to obtain. There will also be those situations where a woman may die if she brings her pregnancy to term. Do we want to make these women jump through hoops to get necessary healthcare? Do we want to pass judgment on them because they need to avail themselves of this "rare" medical procedure? It's bad enough as it is already. Making it rare makes it unavailable for those who need it.

This is not some pie-in-the-sky world where only grave situations produce abortions. Most abortions in the US are obtained by women who are mothers already, and who can't bring another child into the world, for whatever reason. You're never going to get decent sex education in the red states. So making abortion one more impossible hurdle for women by making it "rare" will only damage them further.

It's not an ideal world. We will never have comprehensive sex education and freely available birth cotrol that works 100% of the time. Making abortions rare only stigmatizes those women who need them.