Hillary visiting Ottawa

Hillary Clinton is visiting Ottawa, and is generally shooting her mouth off. She's been rudely suggesting that Canada continue to provide troops for Afghanistan after the 2011 end of our mission. She doesn't seem to understand that all she can accomplish is to embarrass herself, her President and her hosts by asking a question for which the answer is "No."

However today, her stupidity eclipsed her bad manners. Taking us to task for an initiative for mother's health care, she said, "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health and reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortions." Well no. What she could have said was, "You cannot have women's health without reproductive health and reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortions." Maternal refers to motherhood, and it seems to me that contraception, family planning and abortion are about preventing and ending motherhood.

Hansard

The following is a quote from the Canadian Parliamentary Hansard for March 26, 2010, by Conservative member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre (just after the visit to Canada by Ann Colter):

Mr. Speaker, the member has raised a very important question about an American commentator who has come to this country with some outrageous comments: comments supporting the Iraq war, comments supporting the use of torture, and comments referring to Israel as a war criminal. But enough about the leader of the Liberal Party.