{"id":171792,"date":"2017-09-16T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171792"},"modified":"2017-09-16T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T19:56:15","slug":"hillary-clintons-lauding-abortion-contribute-happened-failed-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hillary-clintons-lauding-abortion-contribute-happened-failed-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Hillary Clinton’s lauding of abortion contribute to ‘what happened’ to her failed presidential bid?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The media is all abuzz over Hillary Clinton’s new book, “What Happened ” — a book certain\u00a0pundits<\/a>\u00a0believe is nothing more than a long list of excuses and blame shifting<\/a> for Clinton’s failed run for the presidency in 2016. And while there are many reasons why Clinton lost her 2016 presidential bid, one of those was likely her radical stand on abortion<\/a> and support for Planned Parenthood<\/a>.\u00a0After all, Clinton hired campaign\u00a0staff associated with Planned Parenthood<\/a>, and\u00a0was\u00a0endorsed<\/a> and\u00a0funded<\/a> by the abortion corporation.<\/p>\n

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While Clinton is to blame for her own positions on “issues” like abortion, certainly she also has the Democratic Party to thank, after the group bragged about<\/a>\u00a0making its 2016 platform the most pro-abortion platform in history. As Live Action News’ Rebecca Downs noted in her year-end analysis<\/a> of the 2016 election results, Hillary and the Democrats left pro-lifers behind.<\/p>\n

But in reality, Clinton has mainly herself to thank for her loss. Surrounding herself with hard-core abortion fanatics put the first female presidential candidate in a bubble which alienated voters. From the beginning, Clinton has\u00a0stated<\/a>\u00a0that her\u00a0position on abortion is 100 percent in line with Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What does that mean? It means she supports abortion on demand for any reason<\/em> and at any gestational age<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And we saw this radical support for abortion during her campaign, over and over. Voters understood that Hillary’s radical support of abortion was years in the making, and how extreme Hillary was, because she did little to hide it.<\/p>\n

Many believe Hillary was the impetus<\/a> behind President Bill Clinton’s pro-abortion executive orders<\/a> and radical stance, despite his infamous lip service to the idea of abortion being “safe, legal, and rare.” Bill Clinton’s veto of a ban on partial-birth abortion — the horrific partial-birth abortion (D&X) procedure, in which an abortionist partially delivers the preborn child before stabbing the baby in the neck and suctioning out his brain — is believed by many to have Hillary’s fingerprints all over it.<\/p>\n

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Partial-birth abortion (also known as a D&X procedure)<\/p><\/div>\n

As Senator, despite the partial-birth abortion ban being supported by a majority of Americans, Mrs. Clinton\u00a0defended<\/a>\u00a0this procedure and denied<\/a> that her position was extreme: \u201cWhat I do think is extreme is making a decision in this body to outlaw a medical procedure that may or may not be required,\u201d she said at the time. This\u00a0misjudgment about the nation’s \u00a0support for abortion, naturally, has yet to be mentioned in interviews about her new book.<\/p>\n

Hillary’s radical view of abortion as just another “medical procedure” was not in step with the views of the American public, the majority of whom do not support abortion beyond the first trimester. But, despite this fact, in an interview on Face the Nation in 2015, the presidential hopeful (citing false claims that late-term abortions are performed only for \u201chealth\u201d reasons) said she would hate to see the government interfering with late-term abortions:<\/p>\n