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Carly Fiorina Steals Kindergartners For Unhinged Anti-Abortion Event

Even for an evil right-wing liar, this goes beyond the pale.

Apparently, Carly Fiorina thought it would be perfectly okay to grab some kindergartners on a field trip to see plants and flowers. Instead, she thought it would be great to line them up behind her as props for her anti-abortion campaign stop.

On Wednesday, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive embarked on a day of campaigning across Iowa, in an attempt to boost her ailing presidential campaign.

The alleged ambush occurred when Fiorina hosted a “right to life” forum at the Greater Des Moines botanical garden. Entering the rally, before a crowd of about 60 people, she directed around 15 young children towards a makeshift stage.

The problem, one parent said, was that the children’s parents had not given Fiorina permission to have their children sit with her – in front of a huge banner bearing the image of an unborn foetus – while she talked about harvesting organs from aborted babies.

“The kids went there to see the plants,” said Chris Beck, the father of four-year-old Chatham, one of the children Fiorina appeared with. “She ambushed my son’s field trip.”

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