Clinton Calls for Gun Control in Wake of Planned Parenthood Shooting
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Darren McCollester/Getty Images(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — In her first on-camera remarks about the shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday, Hillary Clinton doubled down on her support for the organization and accused the GOP of treating women’s health like “political footballs.”
“We should be supporting Planned Parenthood, not attacking it. And it is way past time for us to protect women’s health and respect women’s rights not use them as political footballs,” Clinton said during her remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Manchester. “Here in New Hampshire, Republicans on your executive council cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. And in Congress and on the campaign trail, Republicans who claim they just hate big government are only too happy to have government step in when it comes to women’s bodies and health. It’s wrong and we’re not going to stand for it.”
Clinton described Planned Parenthood as a place where women can get the health care they need, such as “breast exams and STD testing, contraception and yes safe and legal abortions.” She also offered her condolences for the victims of the shooting, and called for gun control measures.
“How many more Americans need to die before we take action?” Clinton said to a room filled with her own supporters as well as supporters for other Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, “Common sense steps like comprehensive background checks, closing the loop holes that let guns fall into the wrong hands.”
She slammed the GOP for not putting out a bill that would prohibit individuals on the No-Fly list from buying a gun in the U.S.
“If you are too dangerous to fly in America, you are too dangerous to buy a gun in America,” she said.
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