While speaking from the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina criticized the so-called “pro-choice” argument defending America’s largest abortion provider as a force of good for women’s health.
Fiorina argued that anyone who believes the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood and its fetal tissue harvesting practices is simply about women’s health needs to take take a look at the facts.
“I am pro-life,” she began. “But you do not have to be pro-life to understand the hideous nature of what is going on here.”
“This is about the moral character of our nation—when you can have employees who target poor communities; who are pushing women into later term abortions so they can more successfully harvest body parts even though late term abortions are demonstrably bad for women…”
“There is no excuse,” Fiorina fired. “Planned Parenthood must be defunded. And anyone who buys the Democrat argument that this is about women’s health, you need to look at all of the other facilities that provide women’s health services. You need to go look at the facts, at how many mammograms they actually do. You need to go look and understand the foundation of Planned Parenthood, which from its very inception, targeted poor women, African American and Hispanic women.”
For the rest of her fiery remarks, check out the video below.