When asked how far he will go as President to defund Planned Parenthood, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (FL) said during a Tuesday interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” that defunding the healthcare organization is not a “political issue” for him, but a “human rights issue.”
“To me that’s not even a political issue, that’s a human rights issue,” Rubio told anchor Bret Baier.
He then elaborated further:
To me, the sanctity of life is a human right issue. I believe unborn children have rights. That someone, just because they haven’t been born and don’t have a birth certificate and haven’t yet been named, doesn’t mean they don’t have rights. Planned Parenthood is an organization that’s been caught repeatedly and now on video trafficking in fetal tissue of aborted children. it’s an outrageous practice.
Rubio instead suggested taking the federal funds for Planned Parenthood and redistributing the funds to “federally qualified health centers” because women’s health is still “important.”
Watch the full interview, from Fox News, below. The Planned Parenthood comments start at 7 minutes:
Of course it is a human rights issue. The rights of millions of women to access to health care. How can’t he see that? How dare he use the language of human rights to deny those services.
Rubio is correct: Defunding Planned Parenthood will deny millions of women of their right to health care.
I suppose when you start with a false premise, no facts, and a predetermined outcome, you can make up and say anything.
For example, I saw Senator Rubio gulping lots of water on Television. Extreme thirst is a symptom of rabies. He clearly has rabies and should disqualify himself from high office.
And I didn’t even have to doctor the video.
…it would explain a LOT of things.
You know how you know this is complete BS? Rubio has submitted zero bills prohibiting research involving fetal tissue. He has submitted zero bills challenging Roe v. Wade. Zip. Nada. Same with everyone else in the GOP ranks putting on their bestest faux outrage looks.
I am already really looking forward to the general election, no matter who the republican candidate is.