Hillary Clinton Blasts ‘Cruelty’ of Arizona Abortion Ban While Promoting Broadway Musical on Women’s Suffrage

Hillary Clinton blasted Arizona’s abortion ban as a particular “kind of cruelty” on Monday while promoting a new Broadway musical about the women’s suffrage movement that she helped to produce.

Clinton joined Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show in an episode largely promoting the musical Suffs. Clarkson also asked the former secretary of state about Arizona’s Supreme Court upholding a 123-year-old law that bans all abortions except in the case of saving the life of the mother.

“It is horrifying in every way. You know, I feared it would happen, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen and now here we are in the middle of this very difficult period for women in about half the states of our country,” Clinton said.

She argued Arizona’s lack of exceptions for rape and incest show a specific “cruelty” toward women.

“There’s another element to it which I find so troubling. I mean, there’s a kind of cruelty to it. No exceptions for rape, incest, I mean, really? There’s a cruelty toward women [and] toward women’s lives,” she said.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) recently said on The View that she believes the abortion ban in her state saying “women will die” under the law. The governor called for state legislators to immediately repeal the law.

Clinton called for more people to get involved and vote on Monday, which she called the purpose of the Suffs musical. Clinton is one of the show’s producers.

“Voting is your superpower and it may not seem like it, but it really is, and that’s what we’re trying to say in this musical I’m helping to produce,” she said.

Suffs is written by Shauna Taub and directed by Leigh Silverman. It is playing on Broadway now and follows events around the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that gave women the right to vote.

Watch above via The Kelly Clarkson Show.

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