{"id":75570,"date":"2015-09-29T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=75570"},"modified":"2015-09-29T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:29:17","slug":"hillary-clinton-keep-abortion-legal-end-third-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-keep-abortion-legal-end-third-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton: Keep abortion legal until &#8220;very end of the third trimester&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/09\/28\/hillary-gives-her-most-specific-answer-yet-on-whether-she-supports-any-restrictions-on-abortion-video\/\">told<\/a> MSNBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd that she would only support limiting abortions &#8220;in the very end of the third trimester,&#8221; but only with exceptions for &#8220;the life and health of the mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former First Lady and Secretary of State went on to blame pro-life Republicans for the lack of such laws: \u201cIf there is a way to structure some kind of constitutional restrictions that take into account the life of the mother and her health, then I am open to that, but I have yet to see the Republicans willing to actually do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The &#8220;very end of the third trimester&#8221; is several weeks after preborn babies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babymed.com\/prematurity\/pregnancy-viability-what-does-it-mean\">able to survive outside the womb<\/a>, putting Clinton&#8217;s position to the left of those who argue for viability to be the legal cutoff.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News has previously <a href=\"\/news\/safe-legal-rare-mantra-traps-hillary-clinton-rock-crazy-place\/\">covered<\/a>, Clinton had a 100% pro-abortion voting record during her time in the Senate, including her opposition to banning partial-birth abortion and treating the preborn children of pregnant assault or murder victims as separate legal victims.<\/p>\n<p>She has also cited so-called health exceptions as a reason for her positions in the past, but pro-lifers fear that Doe v. Bolton&#8217;s definition of health as any \u201cphysical, emotional, psychological, (and) familial\u201d impact is so broad as to render any law containing such an exception ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told MSNBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd that she would only support limiting abortions &#8220;in the very end of the third trimester,&#8221; but only with exceptions for &#8220;the life and health of the mother.&#8221; The former First Lady and Secretary of State went on to blame pro-life Republicans for the lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":50948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3581,19,611,4997,4947,603,1089,500,31,5358],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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