A Texas Catholic bishop has criticized Hillary Clinton on Twitter after she appeared to link the American abortion debate to army rapes during Russia's conflict with Ukraine and Taliban rule.
"Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman," Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, tweeted on Friday. "Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity."
According to Fox News, an article that accompanied Strickland's post highlighted remarks made by the former Democratic presidential candidate while she was being interviewed by Christiane Amanpour at a summit on women's rights organized by the Clinton Presidential Center.
Amanpour questioned her about her previous claim that women's rights were "unfinished business."
"We have come a long way since I made that statement, back in 1995, on so many fronts. But we are also in a period where there is a lot of pushback and much of the progress that has been, I think, taken for granted by too many people is under attack."
"Literally under attack, in places like Iran or Afghanistan or Ukraine, where rape is a tactic of war, or under attack by political and cultural forces in a country like our own when it comes to women's health care and bodily autonomy," Clinton responded.
While speaking at the summit, Clinton also drew attention to the plight of women in Sudan by referencing the abortion debate.
"It’s so shocking to think that in any way we’re related to poor Afghanistan and Sudan," Clinton said. "But as an advanced economy, as we allegedly are, on this measure, we, unfortunately, are rightly put with them."
Except in cases of rape or when a woman's life is in danger, abortion is prohibited in Sudan's Islamist regime. In the Islamist state of Afghanistan, abortion is also banned unless the mother's life is in danger.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned earlier this year, states in the U.S. are free to enact their abortion laws. Some have placed strict restrictions on abortion, while many others allow it up until the final weeks of pregnancy. Clinton suggested that abortion restrictions are undemocratic, Fox News reported.
In her speech, Clinton said that "this struggle is between autocracy and democracy, from our country to places we can't even believe we're being compared to."
In a separate appearance this week with The 19th, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on women's issues, Clinton discussed abortion.
"I really, truly believe that when women are denied their basic rights anywhere, it gives heart to those who want to take away rights somewhere else," Clinton stated in the interview.
Roe vs. Wade was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court on January 22, 1973, ruled that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional.
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