Bill Clinton Stands Up to Anti-Choice Hecklers [VIDEO]

Jill Filipovic
February 22, 2008
Clinton to Hecklers: "We disagree with you. You want to criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree. I reduced abortion. Tell the truth! Tell the truth! If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother, as an accessory to murder, in prison, and you won't say you wanna do that, because you know that you wouldn't have a lick of political support. Now, the issue is, you can't name me anybody presently in politics that did more to introduce policies that reduce the number of real abortions, instead of the hot air putting out to tear people up and make votes by dividing America. This is not your rally."
He's right that anti-choicers have done nothing to decrease the abortion rate. It's been the pro-choice movement that has taken the most effective steps to reduce the need for abortion and promote healthy families. That needs to be repeated again and again.

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