Hillary Clinton: A Clear and One Percent Danger

It's been two and a half years since Hillary Clinton lost the election. And based on her latest talking points, she still doesn't have a single clue why. The same extremism that turned off voters in 2016 is back, reminding Americans what kind of country they'd have if the woman who made late-term abortion her closing argument for presidenthad won.

This time, they aren't squaring off on the debate stage -- but Hillary Clinton is still managing to make one of the best cases for Donald Trump's reelection. In a bitter response to his State of the Union address, the former first lady tweeted Monday that the president was lying about the severity of third-trimester abortions. "Only about 1% of abortions happen later in pregnancy," she tweeted, "almost always because a woman's health or life is at risk, or the pregnancy is no longer viable. Lying about this is dangerous, and a slap in the face to families who face heartbreaking situations."

First things first. The number of children it affects has nothing to do with the morality of late-term abortion. If there were only two kids on a burning bus, people wouldn't shrug and say, "Oh, the bus isn't full. Don't bother." Right is right. It doesn't have quotas, check the polls, or change with the times. If it's your son or daughter in harm's way, I guarantee you'd say that one life is worth saving.

Like Hillary, Democrats are fond of throwing around this one-percent statistic on late-term abortion (1.3 percent if they're feeling generous). It's a convenient number to use, since most people are trained to dismiss it as nothing. But in this case, that "one percent" represents 5,597 children a year. That's double the number of casualties on 9/11. (Only this time, we're attacking our own.) Imagine if someone said, just as casually, "America only lost 2,996 lives on September 11th. It's just .001 of one percent." It would be unthinkable -- almost as unthinkable as a country passing laws that make it easier to kill perfectly-healthy babies. But unfortunately, that's the culture abortion has created. In the 46 years of Roe, we're talking about 257,462 late-term lives. How does "only one percent" sound now?

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