Tag: Hillary Clinton

This action flies in the face of sanity in that the pro-choice movement is seen as stabbing its friends in the back...a friend named Hillary Clinton.

Their action created a firestorm last night on the NARAL Blog and many others have come forward to disagree vehemently with NARAL's ill-chosen action.

Abortion providers have alot to thank the Clintons for, as the Clinton administration did everything it their power to protect abortion rights and use their Justice Department under Janet Reno to protect the lives of providers.

All this brought to mind a hatchet job done on Bill Clinton by PBS's Frontline a few years ago, when Mr. "Moderate Republican" himself, Sen. Bob Dole, was running for prez against Bill.

(When Bob Dole when Jerry Ford's hatchet man as vice prez candidate against Jimmy Carter et al, represents the "moderate branch of the Republican Party," it demonstrates conclusively to anyone who has watched American politics as long as I have, just how radically fascistic the modern Repugnican Party has become!)

I first met Hillary Rodham in 1974 when she came to teach at the University of Arkansas law school after she had served on John Doar's staff in the US Congress's investigations into the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of President Richard M. Nixon and his gang of Repugnican thugs in the White House.

Nixon resigned in August of that year, and Hillary came to Arkansas to join her then boyfriend and future husband, Bill Clinton.  

At that time, I has involved in a very busy ObGyn practice, and it would be several years before I gained the status of "the local abortionist" in Fayetteville, AR.  Back then, there was a group of three physicians working in the other group ObGyn practice in town who provided the bulk of abortion care in this part of Arkansas.

I think I might have done three abortions the year I met Hillary.  And, much as the "Pro-Life" community would like for one of them to have been for Hillary, I only saw her for routine gyn services.

"They don't just want to wage a war on choice," Clinton said. "They want to wage a war on contraception. They are against family planning. In the 21st Century, they want to prevent women from having access to the tools they should have to determine their own reproductive futures."