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:
