Hillary Clinton’s campaign quickly turned Donald Trump’s abortion comments into a fundraising opportunity ahead of the filing deadline for this quarter.
“This was one of the most outrageous and dangerous statements I’ve heard anybody running for president say — and we cannot risk letting someone with those kinds of extreme views win the White House,” Clinton wrote in the fundraising email on Thursday.
On Wednesday the business mogul said that if abortion were banned there should be “some form of punishment” for women who seek them. Several hours later Trump retracted the statement and concluded that rather than punishing the women who have the abortions, the doctors how perform the procedures should receive punishment.
“The stakes in this election couldn’t be higher,” Clinton wrote. “We’re outraged — and we should be. Any insinuation that Trump’s statement doesn’t deserve a reaction demonstrates a lack of appreciation for how serious this is.”
Clinton has lately focused more on Trump and the Republicans than her primary opponent Bernie Sanders. Her defense of Roe v. Wade has earned her Planned Parenthood’s first-ever presidential endorsement.
