LIVE: Vice President Harris Speaks On 51st Anniversary Of Roe V. Wade, Which Donald Trump Killed
Remember, remember the fifth of Roe-vember. (The election is November 5.)
Today, Vice President Kamala Harris is in Big Bend, Wisconsin, where she’s kicking off her “Fight For Reproductive Freedoms” tour, in a state where just last week, Republicans introduced yet another abortion ban. (This time at 14 weeks.)
Politico Playbook has excerpts of the speech, in which Harris will rightly explain that the Republicans and Donald Trump did this to America, and they want to hurt you more.
“He made a decision to take your freedoms, and it is a decision he does not regret,” Harris will say, according to excerpts provided to POLITICO. “Just two weeks ago, he said, that for years, ‘they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated.’ And then he bragged, ‘I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.’
“He is proud. Proud that women across our nation are suffering? Proud that women have been robbed of a fundamental freedom? That doctors could be thrown in prison for caring for patients? That young women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers?”
Meanwhile at the White House, President Joe Biden will be having a meeting of his Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access, on the same day the administration announced new measures intended to protect access to contraception, abortion pills and emergency abortions, even in states where Republicans would rather pregnant people die in the hospital than abort a pregnancy that’s threatening them.
Wonkette will have more on all of that today.
President Biden started the month being far more aggressive about defending democracy from the threat of Donald Trump and his MAGA extremist Republican insurgent movement. We said then that they need to make abortion a central issue in this year’s campaign, and we hope this is the beginning of that. Ever since Dobbs, every time America votes on abortion, America votes for it.
But we have one nitpick and it’s going to be the same nitpick until it’s no longer necessary: you have to say “abortion.” Biden’s statement on today’s moves by the administration says, “On this day and every day, Vice President Harris and I are fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom against Republicans’ dangerous, extreme, and out-of-touch agenda.” Harris’s thing, again, is called the “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour.
Stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it with this so-called official messaging full of euphemisms and general bullcrap. People are ferociously pissed right now, and American citizens have shown us what they do when you take away their right to have an abortion.
Stop the goddamned pussyfooting around what the issue is, thank you, we love you, watch the wonderful vice president who, by the way, does not have that problem with saying “abortion.”
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Call to Activism:
Hell yeah: An Iowa mom stood up to testify at the Iowa Capitol and delivered an AMAZING speech slamming Republicans’ six-week abortion ban as “stupid, ridiculous self-righteous crap.”
On the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade today, let’s get this everywhere. 👇
Felicia Hilton of Des Moines boldly confronted the Iowa State House and held nothing back:
Here is what Felicia Hilton directed at Republican Governor Kim Richards:
(Ending abortion is about religion?) Where are all these church people when (Governor Kim Reynolds denies) people healthcare? Where are they then?"
Hilton continued. "I'm just saying, if this is about the church, that this is about God, you are the same people that will slap them loaves of breads outta Jesus' hand. Slap out the fish outta Jesus' hand and tell them to get in line and figure out if they're worthy or eligible.
Are they eligible for this food, Jesus? Are they eligible for healing, Jesus? Are these people good enough? Is that what you're telling me in the state of Iowa, that you get to choose who this is?”
This is absolutely an offense to women. This is an offense to everybody, and it is offensive that you're gonna go celebrate the oppression of women at a church. You're gonna go celebrate the oppression of women at a church, but the church wasn't there when she's going to cut the food assistance from the federal government to people.“
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The session's leader tried to cut Hilton off, but she was not having it. 👇
"Ma'am, it's been over three minutes," the man said.
"It doesn't matter. This is a lie. You guys are lying to yourselves and you're offending everyone, including God," Hilton fired back.
This state is ridiculous. The stupid, stupid, ridiculous self-righteous crap.”
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Thank you to this BRAVE mom for speaking out!
video: https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1749448225226940880
In 2016 I got in countless arguments with Bernie supporters,who just COULD NOT bring themselves to vote for that dirty centrist Hillary who robbed St. Bernie if the nomination, that, if Trump won, there was a high degree of probability that Roe was gone.
To further try and sway them that I wasn’t just talking out of my ass, I laid out exactly how it was likely to happen.
1. McConnell would blow up the filibuster to push Scalia’s replacement through.
2. Kennedy, who was an abortion moderate, would either die or retire so he could be replaced by a conservative. His replacement would be unlikely to be a moderate and that vote to protect Roe would be gone.
3. One or more of the liberal justices would die with Ruth Bader Ginsburg being the most likely one due to her age and medical history, but Stephen Breyer also being a distinct possibility. So those 1 or 2 votes pro Roe votes would be gone and that would give the conservative justices all the votes they needed to overturn it.
None of these arguments persuaded the “Never Hillary” crowd and I was met in return by comments that I was being “alarmist” because the GOP would NEVER dare overturn Roe, or that Kennedy wouldn’t retire because he “cared” about Roe too much, or that RBG was some kind of superhero who had discovered the secret of immortality through feistiness and Pilates, and all kinds of other bullshit they deluded themselves with.
I said at the time that, if they were proven wrong, I’d be salty as fuck and remind them what fucking selfish, short sighted, childish, dipshits they are for all eternity………and I intend to stick to that vow.