--- title: Hillary Clinton Blasts Donald Trump on Women's Health description: Hillary Clinton had a message for the White House about women's health, suggesting that “groups of men” in D.C. were stripping away rights canonical: https://time.com/4764603/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-health/ author: Feliz Solomon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-03T05:46:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:43:14.108Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton: 'Groups of Men' Strip Away Women's Rights og:description: The fight for women's rights is far from over, Clinton warned og:url: https://time.com/4764603/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-health/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d1a9b6db3064a0f/6988cbc497cdff094b6b0892/gettyimages-676786796.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Planned Parenthood 100th Anniversary Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton: 'Groups of Men' Strip Away Women's Rights twitter:description: The fight for women's rights is far from over, Clinton warned twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d1a9b6db3064a0f/6988cbc497cdff094b6b0892/gettyimages-676786796.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at 'Groups of Men' Stripping Away Women's Health Care > Sponsored content. 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Andrew Toth—Getty Images by [Feliz Solomon](https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon May 3, 2017 5:46 AM UTC Hillary Clinton had a message for the White House on Tuesday when she spoke at an event honoring the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood in New York, suggesting that “groups of men” in the capital were stripping away women’s rights. “As we speak, politicians in Washington are still doing everything they can to roll back the rights and progress we’ve fought so hard for over the last century,” Clinton said in the speech, [according](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood/index.html) to CNN. Clinton, the former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate who ran a fierce campaign against now-President Donald Trump, then made reference to a [photo shared](http://motto.time.com/4712211/pence-health-care-photo-women/) by the White House early this year showing more than a dozen male politicians at a meeting on health care. The image drew widespread criticism and [online mockery](http://motto.time.com/4730864/hillary-clinton-trump-administration-healthcare-gif/) after it was discovered that the meeting covered topics such as the removal of a federal law requiring insurers to cover maternity leave and prenatal care. “I mean, could you believe those the photos of groups of men around that conference table deciding to strip away coverage for pregnancy and maternity care?” Clinton said, warning that while [a budget passed](http://time.com/4763228/donald-trump-government-shutdown-tweet/) this week includes funding for Planned Parenthood despite the efforts of some Republicans, the organization had only “narrowly averted a disaster.” “We come tonight to celebrate the last 100 years, the progress that so many generations have fought so hard for,” she continued, asking her audience to reflect on the plot of the classic novel and [newly released television series ](http://time.com/4734904/margaret-atwood-elisabeth-moss-handmaids-tale/)_The Handmaid’s Tale,_ [according ](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hillary-clinton-delivers-impassioned-speech-unprecedented-attacks-women-at-planned-parenthood-gala-999820)to the _Hollywood Reporter._ “In _The Handmaid’s Tale_, women’s rights are slowly stripped away,” Clinton said. “As one character says, ‘We didn’t look up from our phones until it was too late.’” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4764603/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-health/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4764603/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-health/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at 'Groups of Men' Stripping Away Women's Health Care","datePublished":"2017-05-03T05:46:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:43:14.108Z","description":"The fight for women's rights is far from over, Clinton warned","url":"https://time.com/4764603/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-health/","keywords":["Health Care","Hillary Clinton","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d1a9b6db3064a0f/6988cbc497cdff094b6b0892/gettyimages-676786796.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Feliz Solomon","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d1a9b6db3064a0f/6988cbc497cdff094b6b0892/gettyimages-676786796.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Planned Parenthood 100th Anniversary Gala","caption":"Planned Parenthood 100th Anniversary Gala","creditText":"Andrew Toth—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4764603/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-health/","name":"Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at 'Groups of Men' Stripping Away Women's Health Care"}}]}] ```