Gillibrand told two-dozen voters in an Iowa coffee shop that “a women should be able to decide when she’s having children, how many children she’s having and under what circumstances she’s having”
IOWA FALLS, Iowa — When a voter here urged Kirsten Gillibrand to take on abortion rights as her “personal fight,” the New York Democrat made it clear that she needs no invitation.
“This is a human right,” Gillibrand said, to a round of applause from a crowd of largely female attendees. “I do know that I’m a voice for all women in this country, and that my leadership on these issues matter,” Gillibrand said following a roundtable with women’s health care providers in West Des Moines. “Maybe more supporters will notice that, and that I’ve been working on it for the last decade.”
Gillibrand predicted this “all-out assault by the Republican Party” on abortion will change voters’ calculus for who they might support for the Democratic nomination, adding that she’s “[led] the debate, not just on reproductive freedom, but on whether we value women.”
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