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AOC on the overturning of Roe v. Wade: "Who does this protect?"
Brut America
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6/24/2022
"We stay, we fight, we push."
After SCOTUS' decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had this message for her colleagues from across the aisle …
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A party and individuals who claim to protect the lives of children just weeks after over
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a dozen children died in Texas now claim to support their life.
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Every single one of us has woken up today with less rights than we had yesterday.
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And with so many individuals out here, I think it's important for us to also tackle this
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myth that this is somehow about babies or children or life.
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Because the same individuals who purport, claim to be protecting life, fight against
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universal health care.
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Do they believe in universal child care?
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Do they believe in life after birth?
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From their policy positions, I assure you, the evidence is lacking.
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Who are we protecting?
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Who does this protect?
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No one.
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Overturning Roe puts every single one of us in danger.
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And what I think many of our colleagues perhaps haven't quite or perhaps they have fully understood
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is that this also undermines the right to privacy in the United States of America.
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But we are here to solve this issue.
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Our job is to develop a path forward.
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And in that, we know that this House has passed and is willing to codify Roe.
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But what we also need is answers from our colleagues in the United States Senate.
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So to those senators who voted for these justices under the claim and the guise that this would
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not happen, this decision falls on them.
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What will they do as they were lied to?
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What will they do as a consequence of this decision?
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Whether that be Republican or Democrat.
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But we cannot allow this to go on unanswered.
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We are talking about a court with the majority of justices appointed by a party that has
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not won a popular presidential election more than once in 30 years.
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Ruling against the majority of Americans.
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We will not stop fighting until this is fixed.
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And I say that to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
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We are not going away.
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We stay.
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We fight.
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We push.
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And we will not be silenced.
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