How Tim Kaine’s position on abortion is worse than Hillary’s

Published July 26, 2016 4:05am ET



There aren’t many politicians whose position on abortion is more extreme, or more deplorable, than Hillary Clinton’s.

She is a long-time defender of partial-birth abortion, was instrumental in removing the word “rare” from the Democratic Party platform’s “safe, legal and rare” language on abortion, and she is now calling for repeal of the Hyde Amendment, a bipartisan rule that for 40 years barred taxpayer funds from being used for most abortions through Medicaid.

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