Hillary Clinton has some tough words for Democrats, and for women

Written by Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion rights, saying in her first extended interview about the fall of Roe v. Wade that her party underestimated the growing strength of anti-abortion forces until many Democrats were improbably "taken by surprise" by the landmark Dobbs decision in 2022. In wide-ranging and unusually frank comments, Clinton said Democrats had spent decades in a state of denial that a right enshrined in American life for generations could fall — that faith in the courts and legal precedent…