Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Campaigning in Iowa with just two weeks to go before the first presidential battles begin, pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton largely avoided a question of how abortion is hurting social security. A woman in the audience said abortion is going to make it harder to keep the system afloat.

Joanne Duncalf, a 61-year-old from Clarion, Iowa, asked the kind of question that normally doesn't come up at a Clinton campaign stop.

Duncalf asked Clinton her thoughts on how to fix Social Security so the program for seniors will be around when her children are ready to retire.

According to a Des Moines Register report, she followed up with a second question and explained that, if abortion hadn't been responsible for killing 50 million Americans, the system may be more solvent than it is now with more people in the workforce contributing to it.

"I'm very disappointed," Duncalf said, that "we're not doing more to save those babies."

Clinton initially avoided the question by making a comment on the large red hat Duncalf wore. She eventually got to the abortion aspect of the question but simply said she has worked to keep abortion "safe, legal, rare."

The New York senator said there is time to fix Social Security and blamed Republican presidential candidates for scaring voters by saying it has problems.

The question of abortion and its adverse impact on the Social Security system is one that doesn't get much attention.

Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller spoke about the impact and in March at a fundraiser for a Georgia pregnancy center.

"If those 45 million children had lived, today they would be defending our country, they would be filling our jobs, they would be paying into Social Security," he asserted.

Researchers agree with the notion that taking millions of Americans out of the workforce is causing problems.

Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute said last year that “When you look at the projections that show our population aging rapidly over the next few decades, when you see our economy and government programs such as Social Security risking bankruptcy, you can see that the United States’ annual 0.9% population growth rate is not enough."

Duncalf said Clinton's response, however poor, was better than the one Democratic candidate Barack Obama gave her when she asked her question of him.

She told the Register about his answer: "He just pointed his finger like this and said, "That. Is. An abortion question.' If he can't handle stress like that, he can't be president."

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor told the newspaper he doesn't recall the question or Obama's reaction and said the candidate has addressed abortion questions in numerous forums.