Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was honored Saturday night in Houston by America’s leading provider of abortions, with an award named for a woman who believed the population of inferior races should be trimmed, and Texas newspapers kept their headlines bland. "Clinton honored for support of women’s rights," said the Dallas Morning News over an AP dispatch. "Clinton champions women’s rights worldwide," cooed the Houston Chronicle. AP’s Juan Lozano offered few highlights (or lowlights) of the speech, but it was a bit shocking to see Mrs. Clinton equate anti-abortion advocacy and anti-democratic politics:
HOUSTON — Helping women’s reproductive and health rights flourish is an important part of U.S. efforts to develop democracy around the world and defeat extremism, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said during a speech Friday.
"A society that denies and demeans women’s rights and roles is a society that is more likely to engage in behavior that is negative, anti-democratic and leads to violence and extremism," Clinton said at Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s national conference in Houston.
Does that mean that the pro-life movement in Western nations isn’t pushing merely for an end to abortion, but against democracy and in favor of violence and extremism? That doesn’t sound very diplomatic for the nation’s chief diplomat. From Newsblaze, the State Department transcript offers a little more context. Hillary believes abortion activism is a great strategy against terrorism:
Earlier this morning, and one of the reasons why I was so late getting to my first event, which was up in Dallas at the Women's Museum, and then to come down here to Houston, is because I was at the White House with the President and our national security team announcing the results of our strategic review about Afghanistan and Pakistan. And as we went through this review over the last two months, one of the points that I and others made is that as we integrate our military and civilian aspects with a mission of disrupting and dismantling and defeating al-Qaida and their allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, we cannot lose sight of the fact that assisting women's development in those two countries is part of America's strategy to be successful in our mission. (Applause.)
A society that denies and demeans women's roles and rights is a society that is more likely to engage in behavior that is negative, anti-democratic, and which often leads to violence and extremism. So the material building blocks of daily life are the most reliable aspects of building democracy, delivering on economic opportunity and adequate food supplies and clean water and a clean environment, and we know that access to family planning broadens the horizons and expands the vision of women everywhere. (Applause.)
It is important for us to remain committed here at home and around the world. When more than half a million women die every year in childbirth and we know that the majority of those deaths could be prevented, then we are missing an opportunity, not only for humanitarian assistance but to build a strong foundation for democratic and positive decision making by people whose lives are freer from the kind of struggle and strife and loss that too many women suffer.
Reporters never seem to ask the question: If America has been too aggressive in forcing Western culture on Islamic countries, if we have "ugly Americans" for pressing democracy on them before they wanted it, how is it that the President Obama and Secretary Clinton will make great friends among the devout Muslims by championing abortion?
Mrs. Clinton was not at all shy about receving a Sanger Award. She declared her awe for this championing of keeping the "morons" from reproducing:
Now, I have to tell you that it was a great privilege when I was told that I would receive this award. I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision. Another of my great friends, Ellen Chesler, is here, who wrote a magnificent biography of Margaret Sanger called "Woman of Valor". And when I think about what she did all those years ago in Brooklyn, taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions, I am really in awe of her.
The 20th century reproductive rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race. It has changed the lives of tens of millions of women. It has changed attitudes and perceptions about women and our roles in society. It ushered in demographic and social changes that have brought us closer to gender equality than at any time....
So it often is important to remember what is most basic in any of our lives. The ability to plan a family and to raise healthy children is certainly at the core of that. Ensuring that women have that freedom will be the policy of this Administration. (Applause.) And there isn't any organization in the world with a reputation for caring so much and doing so much and being so courageous or truly being a valorous organization in the tradition as a woman of valor.
National Review chastised Chesler back in 1992 for stepping around and making excuses for Sanger's embrace of eugenics (although I don't embrace the modeling of Sanger as a "quintessential Randian protagonist.")
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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I never understood
March 29, 2009 - 07:36 ET by 10ksnookerWhat is so undemocratic about crossing your legs -- and what is so democratic about killing the unborn.
It's common knowledge you cannot be rational and liberal at the same time. Holds everywhere it's tested.
abortion surely
March 29, 2009 - 12:42 ET by TruthMongerabortion surely demeans UNBORN WOMEN doesn't it...
who's worst prez ever now?!!
If
March 30, 2009 - 11:17 ET by cvgbuckeyeIf Obama, the left, the democrats, and the media (frankly all and the same entity) were able to pass a new law that the minimum voting age was now 6 months old and that 75% of them would be liberal voters, they would all become pro-life immediately. Abortion doctors would all be jailed or executed (unless of course the vote democrat), all rubber machines would be smashed with sledge hammers and they would burn all abortion clinics.
Hillary and abortion
March 29, 2009 - 07:52 ET by fatharryEdd B. I agree with the last post. How the heck do you equate women's rights with killing a child? Only a democrat could pull that one off
Odd place to get all uppity on teh Muslim countries.
March 29, 2009 - 08:00 ET by JWFI want to be the first one to stand up and applaud. YOU GO GIRL! You tell those Muslim countries how it is. Stand up for Women's rights!
Now I shall wait.
I shall wait for you to stand up and speak for those who have no voice - the unborn.
Waiting...
Waiting...
Hello?
I'm all for the U.S.
March 29, 2009 - 08:54 ET by ThatDudeI'm all for the U.S. attempting to help middle eastern women. They are culturally treated as property and less than human. Helping to bring social justice and the most basic of women's rights (you know, human rights?) should be the priority on that initiative. I have no clue how she sees fit to bring abortion into this discussion. If deaths resulting from childbirth are so prevalent over there, it would seem to me that improving the medical care system would be the answer rather than murdering children. I'll not really get much farther into it, as I'm not strongly pro-life and don't care to argue with others here.
I would really just like some honesty here. Stop promoting abortion under the cover of "women's rights." It's killing the unborn and should be recognized as such. Work on the real problems before attempting to justify amoral actions.
Fix the real issue
March 30, 2009 - 09:10 ET by ConservativeMissourianI completely agree with what you are saying. I am, however, pretty strongly pro-life. Like you said, if there are that many deaths in the middle-east resulting from childbirth it would make sense to improve the medical system rather than killing unborn children. We live in a time where processes that do not work should be improved until they are effective. Not a time where processes that don't work should just be ignored. Clinton needs to stop using women's rights to advocate killing unborn children.
the msm is so blinded by the glow...
March 29, 2009 - 08:09 ET by clinging to my guns and my religion...emanating from the obama administration that they choose not to see the irony. how can you decry terrorism out of one side of your mouth while promoting abortion rights out of the other? how can you infer that the peoples of a democratic country are more evolved than those of one which has not seen fit to legalize the murder of the unborn? how can you claim to champion "women's rights" when you are totally discounting the rights of unborn women? wish the msn would ask clinton just what does constitute "violence and extremism"!
"i believe he will not stop until we are all jobless, homeless, hungry, and cold!"
Abortion rights
March 29, 2009 - 23:20 ET by merlin61Its okay for this woman to say : "Population of
inferior races should be trimmed." Are we
going to relive the era of Hitler who wanted a
superior race,and experimentation on human
beings? Already they are talking about "designer
babies". This is outrageous!!! This world
is going nuts!!!! Dear God, help us all.
Pray, pray, pray.
Isn't the concept of the
March 29, 2009 - 08:39 ET by MidAmericaIsn't the concept of the Secrtary of State getting an award for championing abortion, from the people who make a living murdering babies, a bit like the Secretary of Defense getting an award from munitions manufacturers?
Madame Secretary uses
March 29, 2009 - 08:41 ET by ConservativeRexMadame Secretary uses violence as a perjorative. There are plenty of instances where violence was not only necessary but required by a free people.
I find it interesting that democrats continue to bring up one of their saints Margaret Sanger. I guess democrats can never get away from being the epitome of racist. Margaret Sanger was for reproductive rights alright. Rights as long as you were Caucasian. If you were any other race, not so fast. Specifically, Blacks. Margaret Sangers only option for Blacks, or, with any combination of Black blood, was sterilization.
Yep, that's the dirty little secret the left always conviently leaves out when discussing their hero Margaret Sanger. Her views towards Blacks was no different then what the Ku Kluxers espouse. So I wonder how a radical feminist Black lady squares sharing the same ideology as the Klan.
But they certainly must protect their re-productive rights.
Good morning Rex
March 29, 2009 - 08:59 ET by cocodrieAmen. The democrat black leaders can be compared to the Vichy-French under the nazis.
KKK Byrd must be proud of his party's accomplishments.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
The Party of Death at least has someone honest enough ...
March 29, 2009 - 08:57 ET by CKA in Red State USA...to admit it.
Given Hillary's admission and the abortionist-in-chief and Sebelius, how can anyone calling themselves Christian, be they Catholic or Protestant, be a Democrat?
Answer: They're not what they call themselves, thus they vote for the likes of the pretend-Christian who inhabits the White House.
→ I've seen it happen
March 29, 2009 - 09:13 ET by Cool ArrowThey turn the Bible into an allegory, a cute story.
That's why they can hate Israel (because Christians are the new Israel, right?) , and slaughter the "holy innocents" (as Herod did, but this is different, right?).
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
What a load of BS
March 29, 2009 - 09:10 ET by sam12663First we have Biden telling us "paying more taxes is patriotic"; now we have Clinton telling us were not 'Democratic' if we believe in the sanctity of life. Is it no wonder the Democratic party is full of souless, clueless idiots. As usual, not believing as Dems do will get you labeled as 'anti' something. We must do whatever has to be done to take back our country from these immoral liars.
President Obama is nothing more than a empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
Leftistgrrrrrl manifesto of women's "rights"
March 29, 2009 - 09:19 ET by Pharmer1) Women have the "right" to be sexually molested prior to, during, and shortly after puberty.
2) Women have the "right" to be given the morning after pill (or other chemical abortifacient) without their knowledge by the direct provider of above mentioned "right" number 1.
3)Women have the "right" at any age to be told that they should abort their child if they are raped, or molested.
4)Women have the "right" to recieve birth control drugs containing hormones listed by WHO as carcinogenic, and which now must be packaged with safe handling labels.
5)Women have the"right" to be lied to about the mechanisms and side effects of drugs mentioned in #4.
6)Women have the "right" to bear the brunt of the burden of bodily alteration through hormone use, as their parters most often refuse to assume such responsibilities
7) Women have the"right" to be told that they should abort their child if it has untoward fetal diagnosis (likely to have a disability).
8) Women in socialized medicine systems have the "right" to be forced to abort if they have too many kids, or in the case of untoward fetal diagnosis.
9)Women of school age have the "right" to be given drugs at their schools, or to be driven to get an abortion by school counselors without parental consent.
10)Women have the "right" to be used as a sex toy by perverted old politicians and judges, (and those who pay them off), and found dead after the usefulness has diminished.
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This is just a partial list of the "rights" of women conferred by the Leftists. I bet you can identify many more.
And I will be happy when
March 29, 2009 - 09:59 ET by eaglewingz08And I will be happy when she makes such a speech for abortion rights and women's rights that are telecast in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Iran and Syria. And when she comes out against the Chinese aborting their female children to favor males in their one family one male child government policy.
Hillary & China & Abortion
March 29, 2009 - 10:55 ET by BlondeHRC, Her Highness, the SecState, seems to have her own agenda, doesn't she....I think Warner hit it...she thinks she's the co-president.
She went to the Chinese, begging for money, but didn't say anything at all about human rights...here's something she might have commented on, Chinese executing political prisoners and harvesting their organs for profit...using state-of-the-art "death vans". BTW, the Chicoms also harvest organs from prisoners.
Again, the "co-president":
And of course, she supports abortion. Do you know about the "Conscience Clause"? It allows doctors and other medical service providers (hospitals) to opt out of performing abortions on moral grounds, a clause which was strengthened under President Bush. But Obama, HRC, and Sebelius are planning to overturn it shortly (perhaps as soon as in two weeks). Here's confirmation, from CNN.
The doctor quoted in the CNN article, Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema:
I have been having a conversation with stratman on the Forums, and lifted this verbatim from one of his posts, about this so-called Doctor:
These are the kind of evil people we are dealing with. They don't care about anything but themselves, and their pursuit of power at all costs, to anyone and everyone else, including the unborn.
I hope he fails, too.
I too am waiting
March 29, 2009 - 10:24 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonWomens 'rights' in the muslim world?
When is olbammer going to explain to mushell that she really needs to get with this whole "push islam" thing and start wearing her Chador.
( Chador - long, loose robe that covers entire body and head, often
combined with a veil worn across the face with a small slit through
which the wearer can see.)
Would we be able to see the bruises she inflicts on the prez....?
http://gjresult.com
burkas abound
March 29, 2009 - 10:38 ET by botgdon't hold your breath, we all know the womans libbers sell out all their supposed ideals to support leftist agendas
"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read" ---Groucho
Good morning botg
March 29, 2009 - 10:54 ET by cocodriewomens libbers don't have to worry about muslim women's rights.
Islam has already given women the right to be raped, stoned, shot or beheaded.
What more could they ask for?
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
and like popeye Pelosi
March 29, 2009 - 11:07 ET by botgthey will all gladly don the headscarf to further the true cause
have a blessed one coco
"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read" ---Groucho
Abortion remains a pathetic form of birth control...
March 29, 2009 - 11:03 ET by ThalpyAbortion remains a pathetic form of birth control. Hillary's comment, "A society that denies and demeans women’s rights and roles is a society that is more likely to engage in behavior that is negative, anti-democratic and leads to violence and extremism" does not recognize the extinguished life of the child who endures partial birth abortion. Women's rights should be valued, but should their irresponsibility and poor planning continue to go unmentioned in this debate? What about the sperm donor in all of this? It's always rights, rights, rights, and seldom responsibility.
Why is the Democrat Party so filled with death?
March 29, 2009 - 11:55 ET by CKA in Red State USAWhy is it that the Demockacrats/Dementocrats hate life so?
Of course, underlying it is their hatred of God, about whom they continue to show their contempt.
They do so by failing one of the Bible's true tests: that the stronger should protect the weaker.
So, bullies and spiritual perverts that they are, they wage war on humanity's most defenseless?
It is because the unborn have no vote?
Whatever, just like they've severed the cord recently with the private sector, through Obama's and Geithner's constant hectoring of private industry, they've never severed their ties to morality.
Hillary Clinton does not know what a service she's done, though.
She cannot reclaim those words.
And they will show up now, politically, for years to come.
Again, no true Christian can possibly vote for Demockacrats again, especially now that Clinton, who holds some position of power in the party, has made this declaration.
Oh, by, the way, if being pro-life is anti-democratic, then I am.
But so are the Founding Fathers and millions of us.
The Demockacrats do not seem to understand that they are pushing this country to the brink of -- if not already into the realm of -- real revolution, peaceful or otherwise, by their morally and intellectually bankrupt actions.
BTW: Clinton being a Methodist? Maybe she should read their Book of Discipline about what it says about abortion. And then reconsider her allegation to being a Methodist.
Better yet, maybe she should dust off that Bible that Bill was famous for toting in and out of the National Cathedral when he wanted to be seen--and finding out the Lord Jehovah is the God of life, not death.
Wrong, Hillary
March 29, 2009 - 14:13 ET by Kat Outta the BagPro-life simply means being for life...the opposite of being against life. It has nothing to do with democracy or any other form of government and has everything to do with L-I-F-E, especially for defenseless unborn children who have no say in the matter. Idiot.
Thanks hill
March 29, 2009 - 18:39 ET by RD KingNo wonder I’m so screwed up I never have figured out that the torturous murder of the unborn is neither violent nor extreme. You truly are the smartest woman in the world, oh yea if you're watching call me.
Margaret Sanger
March 29, 2009 - 19:56 ET by wingnut55It doesn't surprise me that Clinton would be happy to receive an award named after Sanger. After all Margaret Sanger was an avowed socialist. What else needs to be said.
Question is???
March 29, 2009 - 20:09 ET by ScrapironAfter Shrillary had the politically required/correct one child, how many did she abort/murder?
No matter what she does/says now her front seat in hell is already reserved.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
The Price of War & The Price of Abortion
March 29, 2009 - 23:41 ET by RpeggioMuch like liberals have cried to allow the media to shoot video/pics of soldiers' flag-draped coffins, so we can see 'the price of war', I say people should see 'the price of abortion' too. There should be a requirement for a coffin and funeral for aborted/killed babies.
(oh, sorry, "fetus' is the word the pro choice-ers are more comfortable with to keep their conscience clean. They do realize it's an unnatural act when a Dr. tears a fetus apart in the womb.) Why not be pro adoption? Err on the side of life people, many great caring folks want to adopt American born babies and many have to go overseas because there aren't enough here in the states.....there's no excuse for the easy-out of abortion when adoptive parents are plentiful in the country. It's just sad.
The original feminists were
March 30, 2009 - 07:54 ET by moderncommentaries83The original feminists were ANTI-ABORTION. They, being intelligent women, knew abortion for what it was: an aggregious abuse of women that did nothing to further our rights and freedoms. It allowed men to abuse women and get away with shunning their responsibilities as fathers. And they were right. Check out this research by the Eliot Institute. It shows that most abortions involve some form of coercion or force (so much for "choice", huh):
64% felt pressured by others1
More than half felt rushed, yet 67% received no counseling1
79% were not told about available alternatives1
65% suffer symptoms of trauma1
Coercion to abort can escalate to violence against women2
Coerced or forced abortion: internationally recognized as human rights abuse 4
Homicide is the leading killer of pregnant women1, 2
Margaret Sanger was an evil person. But the left overlooks her love of aborting and sterilizing minority races (calling them "inferior") because the supposed "right" to unfettered, consequence-free sex is more important than protecting people from what amounts to another, silent, holocaust.
It's telling that our government not only embraces, but adores, her. And that they gladly allow Planned Parenthood (or Banned Parenthood, as I call it) to carry out her mission.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
for some, facing the horrors of it will damn themselves
March 30, 2009 - 07:59 ET by buzzkill3rHillary, Obama and the NARAL/PP members are hardcore abortion fanatics. They will not be convinced otherwise as accepting the truth would mean they have to face the fact that they have promoted it.
The average person on the street is a different matter though. The amount of people that realize that abortion is murder is increasing every day. All you have to do is get them to think objectively about it.
A friend of mine was talking to someone who said he was pro-choice. My friend said "I'm pro-choice as well, but with a two conditions. First, I get to make the decision, and second, it can be applied retroactively."
The fellow he was speaking was shocked and said "Who are you to decide that?"
To which my friend said "Who is anyone to decide it?"
There are really two problems, there...
March 30, 2009 - 08:26 ET by Mike SargentThe first problem is the implication of causality - pro-lifers cause societies to be undemocratic. That statement itself can be tested - but I doubt it is true.
The second problem is ruther obvious for any person who has a passing knowledge of the legal/judicial debate surrounding abortion (as, I am sure, Secretary Clinton does). The Roe vs. Wade decision, that holy bastion of abortion-rights defense, is inherently undemocratic. By judicial decree, the democratic process of state and local activism has been outlawed.
Secretary Clinton...did you even think?
Muslims do not believe in abortion
March 30, 2009 - 11:08 ET by Southern voterTheir main goal is to increase the population of Muslims in order to be the one world religion...plain and simple....and have you noticed it's working !!! look at other countries , especially England and France ...our country is so busy making every women feel warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that she killed her own child that they have lost sight at what is really happening ...
Someone mentioned in another post how China harvest body parts of prisioners, etc...hugh market...have you ever asked what happens to the body of a full term aborted baby after a partial birth abortion ??? why is not everyone Mr Obama not appalled that this full term baby can be murdered ....there is money, lots of blood money in the abortion industry...that's why there are so many pushing to make it all right ....
There is nothing new under
March 30, 2009 - 19:00 ET by rbosqueThere is nothing new under the sun...
St. John Crysostom, Homily 24
on Romans, 391 A.D.
"For I have no name to give it, since it does not take
off the thing born, but prevent its being born.
Why then dost thou abuse the
gift of God, and fight with His laws, and follow after what is a curse as if a
blessing, and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder, and arm the
woman that was given for childbearing unto slaughter?"
Flavius Josephus,
though not a Church Father, was the main Jewish historian of his time,
37-101 A.D., so he lived during the time of the Apostles. He had this to
say:
"The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and
forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward;
and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child by
destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind:
if anyone,
therefore, proceeds to such fornication or murder, he cannot be clean."
Josephus against Apion, 2:25...