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Iraq, China, abortions

The Two Faces of Hillary Clinton

By William John Hagan
Friday, November 18, 2005

Without question, Hillary Clinton is using every weapon of mass deception in her arsenal to attain the Presidency. With a solid lock on the liberal vote, Clinton is now pursuing moderate voters with breath-taking zeal. Senator Clinton has been remarkably successful at distancing herself from her husband’s legacy of appeasing Osama bin Laden by casting herself as one of the few Democratic Party leaders who supports the liberation of Iraq. While she may be successful at fooling a pliable public, one of the major issues that will stand in her way is her unabashed support for abortion on demand.

The current battle over President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel alito, has demonstrated that our nation is deeply divided over the subject of abortion. There is no question that Senator Clinton’s judgment on the issue swings far to the left and will become a major subject of debate during the 2008 election cycle. However, in her typically pathological fashion, Clinton has been gradually trying to recast herself as a moderate within the "Pro-Choice" community. For example, Senator Clinton, in a move that can only be described as "immaculate deception", has recently come out against partial birth abortion. as with all Pavlovian politicians, she must now realize that this achievement has produced the reflexive positive reward that she sought; because she is now taking a stand against China’s policy of forced abortion.

Senator Clinton has recently spoken out about China’s "one child" policy by attacking the "forced abortions" that are a part of that nation’s domestic plan. In her never ending quest to co-opt the public discourse, she has even gone so far as to demand that President Bush address the topic with China’s President Hu Jintao when he visits China this week. It is certainly fitting for President Bush to address this essential Human Rights issue during his mission to China, but for Clinton to demand such an action is nothing but pure conceit.

President Bush has actively fought against "forced abortions" in China by suspending payments from the United States to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPa). UNFPa funds abortions in 150 third world nations as part of their mission to control the world’s population. Under the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, the United States enthusiastically allowed taxpayers’ dollars to be directed into the coffers of UNFPa. This is, of course, not surprising as both Clintons have never made a secret of their fondness for the abortion "right". Conversely, President Bush has put an end to using taxpayer funds to pay for foreign abortions by withholding money from UNFRa; citing the Kemp-Kasten amendment which prohibits U.S. funding of coercive abortion and forced sterilization.

a 2002 report by the U.S. State Department found that UNFPa funds were being used in China for the "imposition of a birth limitation policy coercive in nature that resulted in instances of forced abortion and forced sterilization." Furthermore, that same study also found that the officials of UNFPa had worked closely with officials in China who employed coercive methods of population control.

Despite the Senator’s public declarations denouncing China’s policies, and her demand that President Bush address the issue of forced abortion while in China, Clinton has been quietly working behind the scenes to restore funding to UNFPa. Using the Senate’s recent tsunami relief legislation as a cover, Clinton introduced an amendment to the bill which called for renewed U.S. funding for UNFPa. The amendment, which she proposed to the 2006 Foreign Operations appropriations Bill, would have resulted in China, once again, having access to U.S. taxpayers’ dollars to help fund its universally denounced program of "forced contraception".

By proposing her amendment to the Foreign Operations appropriations Bill, Clinton is knowingly supporting China’s policy of "forced abortion". Despite this blatant disregard for basic Human Rights, Clinton is now attempting to, once again, reinvent herself for her own political benefit. Evidently, it appears that Senator Clinton truly believes that the United States has become such an Orwellian society that the history of her actions can simply be erased by a few carefully placed public statements. Lamentably, she may just be right.

William John Hagan is a weekly columnist for the Houston Home Journal, published in middle Georgia. He is also a fiction writer who has completed his first novel, “Divine Providence”.  



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