When I think of human rights, I don't think that includes the right to have an abortion, taking the life of another human being.
One of the most basic rights we have is the right to life, not the right to kill.
Hillary Clinton doesn't see it that way. She believes the strong should be able to end the lives of the weak, the innocent, and the vulnerable.
Clinton defends abortion right worldwide
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifying in Congress, defended the right to abortion worldwide and the Obama administration's decision to finance family planning overseas.
Clinton stood her ground against Christopher Smith, a Republican lawmaker from New Jersey who strongly opposes abortion.
Smith, speaking during Clinton's first hearing in the House Foreign Affairs Committee since she became top diplomat, asked if President Barack Obama's team sought to influence African and South American countries on abortion.
"Congressman, I deeply respect your passionate concern and views which you have championed and advocated for over the course of your public career," Clinton told him.
"We, obviously, have a profound disagreement," the chief US diplomat said.
"When I think about the suffering that I have seen of women around the world, I've been in hospitals in Brazil where half the women were enthusiastically and joyfully greeting new babies and the other half were fighting for their lives against botched abortions," said Clinton.
"I've been in African countries where 12 and 13-year-old girls are bearing children. I have been in Asian countries where the denial of family planning consigns women to lives of oppression and hardship," she added.
"It is my strongly held view that you are entitled to advocate and everyone who agrees with you should be free to do so anywhere in the world, and so are we," she said.
"We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women's health and reproductive health includes access to abortion, that I believe should be safe, legal and rare," Clinton added.
...Another Republican lawmaker, Jeffrey Fortenberry of Nebraska, joined the fray when he said "I don't believe we should use American foreign policy to export abortion.
I strongly object to taxpayer dollars being used to fund abortions abroad.
Hillary believes that it is our country's duty to help pay for women around the world to kill their unborn babies.
Access to abortion isn't a fundamental human right.
The right to life, however, is.
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