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Clinton Defends Her Support for Pro-Life Candidate
Sen. Hillary Clinton, a strong supporter of pro-choice women’s groups, is defending her decision to give a large donation to a staunchly pro-life Democratic candidate for the Senate. As NewsMax reported last week, Clinton’s political action committee, HillPAC, gave $10,000 to the campaign of Pennsylvania State Treasurer Bob Casey – the maximum amount the committee could give under campaign finance laws. Casey is running against Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, who is also an abortion foe. The National Organization of Women criticized Clinton’s move, and has an online petition drive asking party leaders to scuttle Casey’s Senate bid.
Story Continues Below Hillary’s donation can be seen as particularly hypocritical since she opposed the confirmation of Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court justice largely over the abortion issue, and even backed an effort to mount a filibuster against him. But Clinton said her decision to make the donation was motivated by partisan politics. "Regardless of what differences there may be among Democrats, the differences between Democrats and Republicans today could not be starker,” she said at a press conference. "And if we can move toward a Democratic majority, we can prevent some of the ill-advised legislation and nominations we have to deal with from ever seeing the light of day.” There may be other factors at work, however. Clinton’s relationship with Santorum has been strained since he wrote the book "It Takes a Family” as a conservative rebuttal of her book "It Takes a Village.”
Clinton could also benefit from having a Democratic senator in Pennsylvania if she wins her party’s nomination for president in 2008, Lifenews.com reports, because Santorum would be likely to help her GOP opponent.
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