“Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will and deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
Those were the words of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a speech at the “Women in the World” summit in New York. Clinton shared her pro-abortion views in her speech.
“Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don’t count for much if they’re not enforced,” Clinton said. “Rights have to exist in practice—not just on paper.”
Clinton specifically mentioned Hobby Lobby and claimed that Hobby Lobby’s not being forced to pay for abortion drugs took away a woman’s right to obtain those drugs on their own.
“America moves ahead when all women are guaranteed the right to make their own health care choices, not when those choices are taken away by an employer like Hobby Lobby,” she asserted.
“There are those who offer themselves as leaders … who see nothing wrong with denying women equal pay, who offer themselves as leaders who would de-fund the country’s leading provider of family planning,” Clinton said, referring to Planned Parenthood, “and want to let health insurance companies once again charge women just because of our gender.”