Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton dismissed Marco Rubio’s attacks on her abortion views a weak pander to conservative voters.
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“It’s pretty pathetic,” Clinton said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning. “This is something that illustrates how Sen. Rubio has just been going as far as he can to try to, I guess, buttress his credentials with certain parts of the Republican constituency.”
“I’ve been on record for years about where I stand on making abortions safe and legal, the exceptions that are appropriate that should be looked into,” she said.
Rubio, a Florida senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, called the Democrats “extremists” on abortion during Saturday night’s GOP debate. He said Clinton supports abortion “even on the due date of that unborn child.”
Clinton said Rubio is engaging in a “tried and true tactic by those on the right” to convince voters that if elected he would overturn Roe v. Wade and defund Planned Parenthood.
“Reasonable kinds of restrictions can be imposed as long as the life and health of the mother are taken into account and that’s what the law is today,” she said.
