A Catholic bishop from Texas is rebuking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the two-time Democratic presidential candidate seemingly likened the overturning of Roe v. Wade to the horror of rape being used “as a tactic of war” in places like Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.
Clinton made the comments during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour amid her Women’s Voice Summit held at the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas on Friday.
“We have come a long way on so many fronts,” she said. “But we are also in a period of time where there is a lot of pushback and much of the progress that has been 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 healthcare and bodily autonomy.”
Hillary Clinton goes on PBS and compares pro-lifers to the Iranian regime, the Taliban, and Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian women. Of course, Christiane Amanpour agrees, "This pushback on American women's rights at the same time as you're trying to figure a way forward." pic.twitter.com/5GznH9uK01
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) December 2, 2022
“It’s so shocking to think that in any way we’re related to poor Afghanistan and Sudan, but as an advanced economy as we allegedly are, on this measure, we, unfortunately, are rightly put with them,” Clinton continued. “This struggle is between autocracy and democracy from our country to places we can’t even believe we’re being compared to.”
In response to Clinton seemingly comparing pro-lifers to those who commit evil atrocities against women in war zones, one Catholic leader is sounding off.
Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, tweeted Friday, imploring his followers, “Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman. Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity.”
Please, please don’t listen to this evil woman. Her lies and immorality need to be silenced for the good of humanity. https://t.co/fZhp6bljnK
— Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) December 3, 2022
Clinton’s comments — and Strickland’s response — came months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe, the landmark 1973 decision that gave nationwide legal cover to abortion.
In his final opinion issued on the matter, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Roe and the 1992 decision on Planned Parenthood v. Casey — which reaffirmed the right to abortion access — were problematic from the day they were decided.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he wrote in June. “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”
Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito.