Clinton To Planned Parenthood: ‘Let’s Repeal Laws Like the Hyde Amendment’

Hillary Clinton raised the specter of a Donald Trump presidency as detrimental to women’s health rights in her first speech Friday as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Both Clinton and Planned Parenthood had come a long way to reach that moment, and not just because Clinton had run before for the Democratic nomination and lost; or because she weathered a strong challenge from Bernie Sanders; or because of any number of scandals, real or perceived, hers or those of the people around her.

Building in emotion, the speech sank into a steady rhythm as Clinton slowly decimated Trump’s claims that he’d be “great for women”.

Trump’s “Make America Great Again” would actually mean “taking the country backward” on women’s and reproductive health, she said – a line she used earlier in the week on more general issues.

Meanwhile, in a fun, nearly too metaphorically note-perfect coincidence, Donald Trump spent the same day courting the far-right evangelical contingent at the Faith and Freedom Conference, run by the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Trump addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual “Road to the Majority” conference – a group of social conservatives, many of whom remain skeptical of the authenticity of Trump’s conversion to their side.

Donald Trump has shown us who he is.

Clinton is closing out a key week for her presidential campaign.

The speech marked Clinton’s first major campaign event since winning Obama’s endorsement, although the president’s backing of his former secretary of state was no surprise. “We’re going to bring our nation together”. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday, and in between Donald Trump and the Republican Party has been in a state of near warfare with one another.

Trump was interrupted by protesters at the annual gathering of evangelical Christians.

“We are not going to let Donald Trump or anyone else turn back the clock”, Clinton said.

Inside the event, Clinton vowed to stand with Planned Parenthood as president. “Stop Trump!” and “refugees are welcome here”. “Kind of hard to imagine counting on him to respect our fundamental rights”, she added.

“He says if women want equal pay we should just, and this is a quote, ‘do as good a job as men, ‘ as if we aren’t already”.

It was the sort of speech you wouldn’t often hear from a male politician. Planned Parenthood still faces an ongoing, GOP-led House select committee not unlike the Benghazi-focused one that hauled Clinton before it and was unable to break her cool.

Speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Network in Washington, Clinton said USA abortion and pregnancy rates are at record lows due to access to contraception and sex education, services offered by the women’s reproductive rights group that is a target of Republicans in Congress and state legislatures across the nation. “Well, Donald, those days are over”. She cited comments Trump made in an MSNBC interview, which he later walked back, that women should be punished for having abortion.