Hillary Clinton Says Banning Abortion is ‘Deadly’ Ahead of Clinton Global Initiative Reboot

Ahead of the first Clinton Global Initiative since 2016, Hillary Clinton sat down on “Morning Joe” to discuss different topics.

The second topic brought up was abortion, a hot topic since the Supreme Court gave power back to the states to legislate the issues after overturning Roe vs. Wade.

The setup for the conversation was about a woman traveling over a thousand miles after finding out her baby doesn’t have a skull, and the doctors are afraid to operate because of possible charges. A young girl who was impregnated by rape was brought up, and her mother took her to a different state for an abortion.

Joe Scarborough claims this is driving some pro-life individuals the other way. He asks Clinton, “How serious is this for women?”

Clinton responds to Scarborough with, “It could not be more serious and more deadly.”

Clinton then goes on to say since the draft opinion that, “a very small minority is going to keep pushing this to the extreme and now we’re seeing it. Where doctors are intimidated if they practice their profession if they do no harm by saving a mother’s life by ending a totally unviable pregnancy could go to jail. This is dystopian this is the handmaid’s tale. and that is why you’re seeing so many women register to vote.”

Abortion itself is deadly as it ends the heartbeat of the baby living inside its mother. That was not the point that Clinton was trying to make though, she was trying to insinuate that the lack of abortion is deadly for women.

This may be true in very rare instances such as some ectopic pregnancies and other incidents that make up very few abortions in the United States. Most abortions are unrelated to medical conditions, rape, or incest.

Abortion has not been banned in the country, rather the power to legislate abortion was only returned to the states to make their own laws that would likely reflect the state’s ideals.

Abortion is likely to be a big factor for many who vote in the midterm elections but may be overshadowed by inflation and the economy.