Clinton accuses Trump of abortion 'scare rhetoric'

Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump was using “scare rhetoric” during an exchange about partial birth abortion in Wednesday’s presidential debate.

After Clinton explained why she had opposed legislation that banned partial birth abortions, Trump said that in that case “you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.”


“Hillary can say that that is OK, but it's not OK with me,” Trump said. “Based on what she is saying and based on where she's going and where she's been, you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb. In the ninth month. On the final day. That's not acceptable.”

Clinton replied that “using that kind of scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate.”

“I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children like they used to do in Romania. And I can tell you the government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families,” Clinton said.