Hillary Clinton: Extremists ‘Want to Control’ Women and Their Health Decisions
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s speech at the Women of the World Summit on Monday in New York City stopped short of actually naming and pointing to the Catholic Church and others opposed to the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. That being said, she did have plenty to say about “extremists” and their battle against women both in America and beyond.
While speaking about the U.S.’s responsibility to be a role model for women and girls across the world, Clinton transitioned from sharing a story about a Tunisian woman to railing on about issues “here at home” that women are facing. Additionally, she seemed to equate those embroiled in this home-front debacle with extremism — although she stopped short of saying it explicitly.

Clinton’s words began innocuously, as she spoke about an encounter she had at a recent town hall meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. She said that an Islamic woman stood up and shared her personal experience working with the U.S. and the surprise that many had at her willingness to collaborate with the West (and vice-versa).
Then, Clinton told the audience, ”I told her that, in America, in Tunisia, anywhere in the world, women should have the right to make their own choices about what they wear…how they worship…the causes that they support.” These words led Clinton to make statements about extremists who are trying to strip away women’s rights across the world.
“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn‘t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women,” Clinton proclaimed. “They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies.” [Emphasis added]
And she wasn’t done there.
“Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and we have to reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America has to set an example for the entire world,” she said.
Watch Clinton’s words, below:
While the secretary of state was clearly choosing her words carefully and speaking very generally, it seemed as though she was referring to the debate over religious freedom and the contraceptive mandate here in America. Politico’s Burns & Haberman was hesitant to attribute the comments to the current contraceptive debate, writing:
Without specifying which policy issues, exactly, she was referring to, Clinton said the United States has to be a “model” for how governments treat women. [...]
It’s not an explicitly 2012-related comment. But it comes at a moment when Democrats are trying hard to brand the GOP as an anti-woman party, and when the president’s campaign works to cement a huge gender gap in place for the fall campaign. And the gentle politicking by both Clintons underscores what powerful assets the could be in the fall, if they end up coming off the bench in a more aggressive way for Obama and their party.
Daily Beast editor Tina Brown appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where she discussed Clinton‘s speech and its application to women’s rights in America being “rolled back.” Here, too, Brown was vague, but it seemed as though she was referencing recent sociopolitical dialogue. Watch her comments, below:





















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Comments (284)
andredegas
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:50pmSince when is it that woman who want to “sleep around” a “health issue”? You want to be a slut….ok be one. That doesn’t mean I have to pay for your actions or your abortions.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:12pmI wonder if this dumb liberal beast remembers how her husband Bill used to control women. What happened to the rights of Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinski, Eileen Wellstone, Linda Tripp, Kathy Bradshaw, Gennifer Flowers…and on and on?
Gawd Hillary, you are such a puke!
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:13pmHillary Clinton: Extremists ‘Want to Control’ Women and Their Health Decisions
Yes Hilary, those people call themselves Democrats and/or progressives.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:15pmI wonder if this dumb liberal beast remembers how her husband Bill used to control women. What happened to the rights of Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinski, Eileen Wellstone, Linda Tripp, Kathy Bradshaw, Gennifer Flowers…and on and on.
Gawd Hillary, give us a break!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:17pmSo, let’s recap…in Liberalville, birth control is now a “health issue.“ And expecting women to spring for the 9 dollars a month it costs out of their own pockets is ”extremists wanting to control them”.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:18pmSorry for the double post. I thought the fine folks at the Blaze deleted my original.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:27pm@ GOLD COIN
There’s a HUGE difference between the left and the right. The rules don’t apply to liberals….
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:35pmThat is a great looking video of Secretary Clinton in action, she certainly lost some of that extra weight she used to carry. That choice of jacket and top is exceptional and adds to her femininity and authoritative demeanor. What a captivating charismatic leader!
There is no way such an important politician and public servant should have to be accountable for a little playful kerflufferry. She can be allowed to be refreshingly funny at times, not always being a stiff leader or role model for young girls. Anyone who takes her seriously is listening to her speeches with too harsh an ear!
TEA
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:38pmNo one wants to control anything You lying sack of crap….WE JUST DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR…..
Report Post »TIME TO BUCK AND PAY YOUR OWN WAY ON SOMETHING.
GeorgieJo
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:39pmI‘m just happy that Sillary isn’t my mother. I would be so embarrassed but then again she did get her daughter to marry a russian jew.
OMG 2012
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:42pmI think there is something strange going on,as Clinton gets uglier inside she also gets uglier outside.
Report Post »American_Hot_Dog
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:43pmConservatives with a 1950s view on women’s health. No surprise there, dinosaurs! See you in November!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:49pmLook at little Hillary and Bill dance when Obama tells them to… aren’t they grand?
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:51pmTodays extremists are tomorrows terrorists in American jails eating pink slime.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:00pmGawd this woman is lookin’ BAD…Bama Admin. taking a toll
Report Post »on her AZZ.. don‘t think she’ll recover from this, Scary…….
I’m actually feeling sorry for Slick Willie..but he’s probably
enjoying her being gone all the tine, know I would….Oh Ya !!
Beckofile
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:36pmWhen she is talking about extremist in Tunisia I could only think of islamic people. I guess not being able to wear your favorite burkini in the middle east is not the problem it is my lack of wanting to pay for other folks sex stuff. We are out of control and it is correct to say the people deserve their leaders.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:39pmHow about women control themselves and then they don’t have to ask me to pay for anything in their lives. They are inviting control and the one‘s with control won’t be the church but rather the government extremist.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:40pmWow! Hilary – even for a Clinton you twisted this story way beyond any possible normalcy. Hilary, your moral compass is out of whack.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:02pmIf I was a woman and had an ugly kid like Hillry and Bill did, I would be a big supporter of abortion!
Report Post »GetOutofTheWagonAndPull
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:15pmHow the heck is NOT wanting to pay for your lifestyle in any way controlling? I’m confused. Is anyone really dumb enough to listen to and believe her? I really love Oreos! Stop controlling my life and buy me some!!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:40pmLast night I saw a woman who claimed to be a libertarian who was actually a liberal on the Ted Stossal program..Ted was talking about the food police..they want to tell us what we can eat and drink..This Liberal woman wanted no soft drinks for anyone under 17 and she wanted to do away with fruit juices saying they held no nutritional value except for sugar..and she wants fruit juice banned..can you imagine a twit like that not knowing the value of fruit juice? I want our Constitution reinstated…I like freedom.
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:22pmRight now Hillary Clinton is the most powerful woman on this planet and has been for years. It isn’t about the money (how much money does it take to bleach botox and have bad taste and not even know it?) it is all the power and she has it. The state dept. controls all the money UN in US US in UN. Pray tell who is now controlling all the women she speaks of? She is. She cannot seem to get a grip on women who disagree with her nor does she ever defend them ie it is better to blame men for women’s defaults and try to stuff the rest of us in her bag of evil. And her sisters of a feather have forked tongues as well. Long before Obama had a name Hillary was out and about with that forked tongue looking out for a village in the name of women and the poor. She has passed the torch US to Michelle Obama in what we eat where we eat where we buy our food and she has gone world wide to tout women’s rights aka human rights. As a woman I never knew my entire life I didn’t have rights. How quaint is that? Until HIllary and the 60‘s and 70’s told us otherwise. She deserves the title of complete Root Rot.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:28pmThanks, Hillarity, for proving to us that one gets uglier with each lie that one tells.
Report Post »johnnylingo
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 6:59pmSillary, I remember you in your Hippie days. I see the drugs did there job on your mind. You and Bill are such spiritual leaders of Sodom and Gomora. Please stay in your own town. Its time to goo where Isaiah said Satan saw the kings of the earth, where they could do no more harm. You’ve sold out for your 15 minutes of fame and shown women everywhere how to help your husband be the best he could be. With the help of Monica of couse. The botox is wearing out like your ideas on what is best for women.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:49pmDidn’t She Arm The Muslim Brotherhood? i think Burying women up to their heads,stoning them,beating them with sticks,and making them wear Burkas is a A LOT worse than trying to keep people from KILLING babies. Would the Jews Sell Hitler Mustard gas and Oven fluid?
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:02pmas part of the vast right winged conspiracy, i would like to say “she is on to us, go to plan b”
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:54amWhen politicians start playing your tune, you had better KNOW that you are the next victim in line to be USED like toilet paper for their ambitions. Hillary “IS” a witch. She will use you like a tool.
Her motivations mirror those of Soros on a smaller scale. But bodies still litter the landscape of her past. http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.html
Report Post »Busybea007
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:00amIf anyone is knowledgeable about trying to “control” people – it’s Hillary Clinton. It is just her inability
Report Post »to “succeed” at it that is distressing to her.
DrFrost
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 12:36pmWe don’t want to control it, we just don’t want to be forced to fund it. But that’s progressives for you, accuse you of what they’re guilty of. The left is far worse about trying to control our lives than the right.
Report Post »libertytreecaretaker
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:49pmShe shouldn’t talk about her boss like that.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:43pmNo CONSERVATIVE OR CATHOLIC SAID THEY WANTED TO CONTROL ANYONE’S ANYTHING. THEY JUST POINT BLANK SAID YOU CAN’T FORCE A RELIGIOUS GROUP TO PURCHASES ANYTHING THAT GOES AGAINST THEIR BELIEFS,,,,FACT IS HILLDOG THE ONLY PEOPLE DOING ANYTHING WRONG ARE THOSE LIKE YOURSELF TRAMPLING THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
Report Post »THE OTHER FACT IS YOUR CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS WANT TO GOVERNMENT OUT OF WOMENS BODIES ON ABORTION AND IN THE ON CONTRACEPTION.
MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:08pmClinton is a total control hack..Obama has taken
Report Post »her to the “Dark Side” Gawd these Dembo’s
gotta’ go !!! I don’t recognize this Country anymore..
Can any one else see what they are doing ?????
Obama Nation
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:47pmSheriff Joe on Obama Investigation: Worse Than Watergate; Biggest Media Blackout in History
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/03/sheriff-joe-on-obama-investigation.html
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:00pmSheriff Joe is just as ridiculous as other Sheriffs and Police Chiefs who take to politics, rather than doing their job.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:03pmprove it.
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 5:36pmSheriff Joe was just trying to do his job and arrest illegals entering the country. It was President Marxist and his band of Socialists that blocked Joe’s efforts at following the law. Sheriff Joe resulted to politics when he was prosecuted for trying to follow the law.
As the Constitution explicitly states that the the president has to enforce ALL laws and not just those he likes, this means that President Marxist is in violation of the fundamental law of the land. He really should be impeached for those violations.
Report Post »BostonHarold
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 2:12pmAll the power of the DoJ is breathing down Joe’s neck. Holder‘s legal dirty tricksters are messing in Arpaio’s bailiwick. You‘re darn tootin he’s got a right to fight back with the truth. He’s more of a man then pencil neck Holder ever dreamed of being. Next thing you know federal troops will be chasing Joe through the hills like Geronomo. Maricopa County is now the front lines of freedom.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:46pmThe ceiling wasn’t the only thing
];8^>cracked….
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:41pmWas the ceiling mirrored?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:46pmHey Hillary..worry about your own family first..you get an std test after your hubby shamed you, your daughter and the country with his lies and deceits? And you stayed with him? great example for your daughter…The debate in this country has to do with 1st Amendment issues…not womens’ health issues…moron..go screw up some more on the international stage and quit deflecting…most unqualified Sec of State ever…Criminal liberal witch.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:59pmMy opinion, she stayed with him for money. There is no love in that so-called “relationship”. They teamed up to make a lot of money and have done just that. Nothing else about those two. Except power.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:46pmThis woman is so deceitful. She admires Sanger, who believed in eugenics. She believes in the NWO and is close friends with Soros. Another person who should be in jail for sedition.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:11pmI wonder why Hillary doesn’t talk about the Arab Spring she and Obama so admired. Maybe she should address this “Samira Ibrahim, one of seven women who said they were forced to undergo examinations to determine if they were virgins while detained by the military a year ago, won a civilian court ruling last year that affirmed the tests were taking place at military jails and ordered they be halted.”
Report Post »starman70
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:11pmRight you are!!!! Do you remember Hitler’s attempt at creating a “Master Race” of white, blonde, blue-eyed
Aryans? How better can the elitests control people than through “Proprer” mating and the elimination of any fetus or baby deemed inferior.
Hillary can join the vast vanguard of demented dictators and politicians who have tried these schemes before. Hillary dear, IT JUST AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:45pmThey will all propbably end up drowning in their own blood.
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:44pmFirst they will label you an extremist. Then you will be a threat. Then you will be a domestic terrorist and you will be subject to indefinite detention by the military or you will see a drone flying over your house
Report Post »caleejr
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:43pm… that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and …
I believe our Declaration states that we are born and granted the right to LIFE by our creator. I don’t see it say RIGHT to Birth Control – or Right to Abortion. I do see it say that LIFE is a RIGHT.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:04pmexactly. the worst part of this is she is a church going women. how can you sit in church all those years and then publicly attack the church and preach to the world the right to death that is abortion. just awful
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:43pmWho cares, this is a distraction from the debt, spending, wars, and real freedoms being taken away from us. The gop, talking heads, and the majority of the gop voting base have been tricked into keeping this as the main topic.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:59pmYes, this is absolutely true. Whenever the media concentrates full force on some idioitic happening, you can be sure there is something much more important they are on purpose ignoring.
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:57pm@Martinez – I totally agree with you. The left showed their cards on this tactic back during the debate where they asked about banning contraceptives. The question was pretty strange at the time, but now is crystal clear. This topic is best left ignored.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:42pmthe dems are creating a falseissue with regard to women. disingenious bastards are throwing women under the bus for sound bites. sadly, some people are sheeply enough to believe it.
Report Post »LindzJ
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:41pmhttp://www.womenspeakforthemselves.com/ These are women rallying behind something true and good. I don’t like being misrepresented.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:40pmNo, the extremists are in the White House, but they are trying to control health issues.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:01pmAll you have to do is look at China and its Gov’t controlled reproductive program. It is coming here if we keep these useful idiots in Power. Yes I said “Useful Idiot” in reference to the President and his Cabinet.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:37pmLol. Do these idiots actually think they’re fooling anybody. Do they actually think their little distraction technique still works.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:46pmWhere does Hilarious Billary come up with such falsehoods? What the heck, specifically, are you talking about, Billary? You need your head examined.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:49pmSadly it does on a large percentage of women, huge numbers of women vote based on the woman’s choice myth or how good looking the candidate is.
Report Post »JBIII
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:50pmThey do, and sadly often times it does.
Report Post »fishlore
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:37pm“Extremists ‘Want to Control’ Women and Their Health Decisions”
Yeah, they’re called Democrats and the vehicle for this control is called Obamacare. Any questions Hillary?
Report Post »caleejr
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:44pmAMEN to that comment!
Report Post »Conservative New Yorker
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:59pmBest.comment.today!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:37pmExtremist liberals want to take away your health care options, yes, yes they do.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:36pmIf women or girl want an abortion they can do to the doctor and get one without notification of their husband or boyfriend.
If a man wants his tube cut he must get his wife’s permission. Who controls who’s body?
Report Post »nstaib
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 3:34pmfor the record, when my husband has his vasectomy in 1998, he was active duty military. all he had to do was tell the dr. he already had ONE child and didn’t want anymore. when i had to have a MEDICALLY necessary hysterectomy to stop SIX MONTHS of bleeding, my dr. asked me if i had discussed the decision with my husband!!i’m completely against ANY “authority” telling me what to do with MY body. i’m also completely against ANY “authority” telling me that i MUST pay for someone else to have abortions or unprotected sex. i paid for b.c. pills because i was told it was the only way to solve all of the problems i was having with my reproductive system. i ended up having 3 miscarriages, my gallbladder removed and a partial hysterecomy because of the pill. is this the way the goverment wants every women in america to end up? oh, i forgot. more abortions and birth control actually saves money becasue there are so many less people to provide for/put in prison…
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:36pmAmerica should not be setting an example for women in all things. I will speak for myself. I do not believe in paying for other peoples contraceptives bill or mistakes. There are plenty out there that want money given to them for doing nothing. I give to the charities of my choice and attend the church of my choice. God Bless America.
Report Post »MTSchmidt
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:35pmI seriously cannot handle all this talk about “women’s rights” anymore. Women have no more rights than men do. This goes against the founding idea that we are a nation of law, not of men – in that we are now willing to let people make laws, policies, regulations, etc. based upon the fleeting emotions and opinions of people instead of having set laws that protect our right to life, liberty and property. I honest want to explode with anger sometimes at the suppression of freedom of myself and all others in this country for the sake of what…abortion rights? medicare? welfare? the environment?….ugh
Report Post »slvrserfr
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:35pmBilderberger and Trilateral group members like her want to control the world and everything in it. People have no idea how sick people like her are in wanting to drive the new world order and control every aspect of this planet through legislation and regulation, even determining whether citizens live or die through population control.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:41pmExactly! FIRST OF ALL you poor, pathetic woman now with the face you deserve Clinton: NO one says women can get all the contraceptives they want…it‘s just that WE CATHOLICS are not going to pay for a drug we don’t believe in. YOU cannot MAKE US BELIEVE IN iT.
BESIDES: It’s not a CHOICE, dolts….it is a BABY.
THEN: IF there was FAITH in GOD, if any of you Bilderbergs, One-Worlders, Marxist, Nazis, Communists KNEW GOD…you would KNOW that our only job as humans is to get to KNOW HIM and be the best we can be. WE cannot control others… ONLY GOD can. You silly, pathetic, faithless people are trying to make a perfect society without GOD…silly, foolish people. SO you end up STONNING 90 kids for not complying to ‘hair style’ – YES ‘YOU” …if you don’t stop ISLAM you are the same as helping them.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:34pmIt is “women’s rights”except if it is a conservative woman- to hell with her rights!
Report Post »rja444
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:04pma tad bigoted are’nt we, Just more liberal hypocracy
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:34pmWell, you can‘t say that Republicans aren’t giving these socialists any fuel.
Report Post »rja444
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 4:02pmI do not disagree with a womans right to make decisions about her own body, with that in mind dont force me to pay for it. Its your body you pay for it. I should not be paying for your abortion or contreception
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:33pmWow, these guys will try anything to get folks off the real issues, gas prices, jobs, taxes, regulation and on and on. So what do they talk about, basically nothing.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:31pmAhh, yes, Hillary, who looks up to Margret Sanger and considers herself an “early 20th century progressive”
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:30pmThis nonsense is a totally bogus invented issue to distract from barry’s horrendous record as president. Don’t fall for it, ignore this clap trap.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:35pmRight you are, if you can’t defend your issues, start a new one, what a load of crap, only a liberal would think everyone else is dumb enough to fall for that.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 2:27pmSo… all Muslims are Extremists… and she just turned over North Africa to the most Radical of the Extremists. May she rot!
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