Sec. Hillary Clinton Defends Reproductive Rights and Family Planning

Sec. Hillary Clinton responds to a question about the role of U.S. government supporting access to safe abortion, contraception, maternal health care and education abroad with a vigorous defense of reproductive rights and family planning.

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• reproductive rights
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[ckpolitico]

Women leaders, such as Secretary Clinton, give me hope for a better tomorrow.

[Bumblybee256]

@mykole84 Lol, where do you live? Where I live men are not forced to take paternity tests and are not forced to sign the birth certificate. I smell BS coming from your direction. You clearly haven't thought this through- supporting live children who need to be fed and clothed is a different thing entirely to allowing a pregnancy to continue. In the former case actual suffering occurs. How selfish of you.

[Theiasember]

Excellent video-Excellent points....

[Jamessir]

@boredbeingbored Unless it's their unborn child.

[boredbeingbored]

men should never be involved in debating abortion

[ZimbaZumba]

Reproductive rights of men don't seem to be on the radar here at all.

[StandUpForCanada1867]

@cathlicscholboy4life "You should be more concerned about the rights of the living than the rights of the unborn."

And YOU'RE saying that I need a biology lesson??? LOL!!! So, by your insane logic, an unborn child is NOT living? Man, you need help.

[StandUpForCanada1867]

@cathlicscholboy4life If I need a biology lesson - then you need a moral lesson. The mother and the unborn child are two separate entities. Are you telling me that if the mother wants an abortion, and the father doesn't - then the mother's decision ALWAYS overrules the father's decision? Since when does the mother have the right to decide her fetus deserves death?

Abortion is either right - or it's wrong. Take your pick. And by the way - swearing isn't helping your case so don't bother.

[cathlicscholboy4life]

@StandUpForCanada1867 You need a biology lesson. You do realize that the person grows from the woman's egg, right? The man's sperm just fertilizes it. You can argue over custody of a living child, but a fetus not only belongs to the woman, but is a part of her. It is inside her. How the FUCK, in your SIMPLE MIND, does that translate into the male having ANY control over the fetus at ANY point before delivery?

[cathlicscholboy4life]

@StandUpForCanada1867 Government should have absolutely no control over what goes on inside a woman's body, and neither should any man, including the father of the unborn child. He can have input, and the woman can choose whether or not to take it into consideration. It's her body. It's her decision. You should be more concerned about the rights of the living than the rights of the unborn.

[StandUpForCanada1867]

@lildarkangel3001 Is it the father's child AS WELL AS the mother's child?

Yeah, I thought so.

[lildarkangel3001]

@StandUpForCanada1867 are they the ones carrying the kid for 9 months? didn't think so