Marco Rubio LIED about-- Clinton’s Stance on Late-Term Abortion

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http://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/factchecking-the-eighth-gop-debate/

FactChecking the Eighth GOP Debate
The candidates made false and misleading claims in the Manchester meeting.

By FactCheck.org
Posted on February 7, 2016


Clinton’s Stance on Late-Term Abortion

Rubio said Hillary Clinton “believes that all abortion should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child.” In September Clinton said she would be “open” to restrictions on late-term abortions, but only if exceptions were carved out for cases in which the life and health of the mother are in danger.

During the debate, Rubio called the Democratic candidates for president “extremists” on the issue of abortion.

“Why doesn’t the media ask Hillary Clinton why she believes that all abortion should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child,” Rubio said.

It is certainly true that Clinton has been a staunch defender of abortion rights. But Clinton has said she’s open to restrictions on late-term abortions, provided exceptions would be given when the health and life of the mother are an issue.

In an interview with Chuck Todd on “MTP Daily” that aired on Sept. 28, 2015, Clinton offered what is perhaps her most complete answer on her position on late-term abortions during the 2016 presidential campaign (starting at the 1:28 mark).

Todd, Sept. 28, 2015: Are there reasonable restrictions that you would ever support on abortion?

Clinton: I’ve said that there were, and that’s under Roe v. Wade, that there can be restrictions in the very end of the third trimester, but they have to take into account the life and health of the mother. I remember in ’96, Chuck, the president, my husband, vetoed a very restrictive legislation on late-term abortions, and he vetoed it at an event in the White House where we invited a lot of women who had faced this very difficult decision, that ought to be made based on their own conscience, their family, their faith, in consultation with doctors. Those stories left a searing impression on me. Women who think their pregnancy is going well, and then wake up and find some really terrible problem. Women whose life is threatened themselves if they carry their child to term, and women who are told by doctors that the child they’re carrying will not survive. And so, again, I am where I have been, which is that if 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’m open to that. But I have yet to see the Republicans willing to actually do that, and that would be an area, where if they included health, you could see constitutional action.

Clinton offered an almost identical position during a debate when running for the Senate in 2000 .

Clinton, Oct. 8, 2000: I have said many times that I can support a ban on late-term abortions, including partial-birth abortions, so long as the health and life of the mother is protected. I’ve met women who faced this heart-wrenching decision toward the end of a pregnancy. Of course it’s a horrible procedure. No one would argue with that. But if your life is at stake, if your health is at stake, if the potential for having any more children is at stake, this must be a woman’s choice.

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1. K&R!

[HillDawg]

2. Yup..

Knew the man was straight up lying right when he said it... Doesn't matter, though. That lied would get exposed in a general election.

[MADem]

3. Glug-Glug is an incompetent buffoon. His inexperience, aside from his lying, IS an issue.

It's one thing to try and pull a JFK/Obama leap to the WH out of the Senate, but you have to have SOMETHING. JFK was a war hero with style and grace and a gorgeous wife (and that mattered back then); BHO was a dynamic young man with a history of community organizing, a professorial background, and a grassroots touch (and he had a gorgeous wife too, but we're supposed to be "PC" and not say so). Those guys were hopey, change-y, and easy on the eyes. They wore clothes well--something that helps a candidate--the "rumpled one" usually doesn't fare as well.

Rubio? He has a whiney, high pitched voice, and despite the fact that he's losing that hair, he looks like the dorky kid at a "Kid Government" conclave. His "record" includes running up RNC credit cards with personal expenditures, getting thirsty when giving a SOTU rebuttal, and not showing up for work.

And I've learned a lot of that from REPUBLICANS! LOL! They don't like him either!

[brer cat]

4. K&R

[Jim__]

5. Marco Rubio doesn't know enough to lie.

He just parrots the talking points he's trained to recite.