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If this excerpt from a speech to a United Nations Conference in China on Women’s Rights were given by Hillary Rodham Clinton today, would she have added that it is a violation of human rights to crush the skull of a baby in a partial birth abortion? The statements in her women’s rights speech appear to contradict her opposition to the Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v Carhart on partial birth abortion.

from a speech by then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China September 5, 1995.

It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.

It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution.

It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.

It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

Hillary Clinton’s statement on partial birth abortion from her campaign website…..

4/18/2007
From the Senate: Statement on Supreme Court’s Gonzales v. Carhart Decision

Washington, DC — “This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman’s right to choose and recognized the importance of women’s health. Today’s decision blatantly defies the Court’s recent decision in 2000 striking down a state partial-birth abortion law because of its failure to provide an exception for the health of the mother. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973, this issue is complex and highly personal; the rights and lives of women must be taken into account. It is precisely this erosion of our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.”

The statement above is a pathetic attempt to walk the political tightrope and offend no one. Carefully crafted to avoid the fact that the SCOTUS decision bans a brutal, barbaric and unnecessary procedure. With Hillary’s earlier statements on women’s and girl’s rights, how would she decide the dilemma of the baby in a partial birth abortion being a female? Do the mother’s rights trump the baby girl’s rights? They are both the same gender. How does that work in your world, Hillary?

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