Hillary Clinton pounced on the opportunity during Thursday’s debate in Brooklyn to point out that there had not been a single abortion question in the nine Democratic presidential debates.
Clinton was answering a question about whether she would support President Obama’s nomination for the Supreme Court when she made her the point about the absence of abortion questions.
“We’ve had eight debates before, this is our ninth. We’ve not had one question about a woman’s right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question,” Clinton said, adding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at one time said that women should be punished for seeking an abortion if the practice were to be outlawed.
The two Democrats were asked about abortion policy in their respective appearances in a town hall hosted by Fox News, but not in any of their sanctioned debates.
I’m glad it’s finally being talked about on our side. It’s not a “bad” word, it’s not something that we need to run from.
Me too, though I think HRC is right to also use the term “reproductive health care.” We should be talking about reproductive rights in general, which are under attack in all kinds of ways.
She made an interesting point. We should not take these rights for granted but I fear many of us do regard this as settled law.
It probably never will be. It has too much value as a wedge issue for Republicans to ever give up beating their drums over it.
Bernie only cares about reproductive rights if the fetus is deemed too big to fail.
This was the point that it became very clear, that Hillary is a General election candidate, and Bernie simply isn’t. She rose above him here, while he was still making faces and smirks and wagging his finger at the moderator like a hyperactive kid in a class photo.