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Hillary Clinton in New Abortion Warning
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is warning that if President Bush's Supreme Court appointees succeed in overturning the federal right to an abortion, state governments would likely implement a reverse of China's one child policy that would instead force women to have five children. "There would be many places in the country that would criminalize [abortion]," Clinton says in a new videotaped message posted to her Senate campaign web site. "They might even send women and doctors to prison." The top Democrat painted a stark picture of government bureaucrats forcing women to bear children against their will if the new Bush court has its way. "It would go in the direction that I saw in my travels, where, you know, in China they mandated you could only have one child. And in some places, like Romania during the Communist era, they mandated that you must have five children."
Story Continues Below Clinton's comments suggest a retreat from her statements earlier this year that were widely interpreted as an attempt to moderate her views on abortion - and instead establish common ground with pro-life voters. But in her latest message, the former first lady seemed to have abandoned that effort, going so far as to suggest that the right to an abortion was the most important part of the Constitution. "If privacy in the most intimate areas of your lives doesn't exist, what do the other constitutional rights mean?" she posited. Editor's note:
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