Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday slammed her Republican rival Donald Trump over his calls for defunding America’s largest abortion provider ‘Planned Parenthood’, saying she will defend women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions.
“Donald has said he is in favour of defunding ‘Planned Parenthood’. He even supported shutting the government down to defund ‘Planned Parenthood’. I will defend ‘Planned Parenthood’. I will defend Roe V Wade and I will defend women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions,” Clinton, 68, said at the third and final presidential debate here.
“We have come too far to have that turned back now. And, indeed, he said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking,” she alleged.
Clinton said she strongly supports constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her healthcare that one can imagine.
“So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding ‘Planned Parenthood’, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country,” she said.
Trump, 70, meanwhile, said the views of Clinton is terrible.
