Pelosi Reveals Plan to Get Around State Abortion Bans, Calls on Private Companies to Provide Travel

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has proposed a plan to allow pregnant women to avoid state abortion bans after the SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade.

During a Sunday appearance on CNNโ€™s โ€œState of the Union,โ€ Pelosi called on private companies to provide travel expenses for their employees so they can get an abortion in a state where it is legal.

Anchor Dana Bash said, โ€œWhat can you do to help women who will be seeking abortions, but live in states where itโ€™s banned.

โ€œFor example, would you encourage private companies to provide travel for abortions as a health benefit?โ€

Pelosi said, โ€œWell, of course, that, but the fact is we, as a country โ€” this is โ€” letโ€™s just put this in perspective.

โ€œWhat we want women and families and everyone to focus on is the nature of this decision.

โ€œThis is โ€” our country, the genius of our founders was to have a Constitution that enabled freedom to expand.

โ€œAnd it did with marriage equality, it did with Roe v. Wade, in many ways, defining freedom more fully.โ€

โ€œThis is the first time the court has taken back a freedom that was defined by precedent and respect for privacy.

โ€œSo, letโ€™s stay focused on who we are as the country and not turn into something where we have to depend on the privacy.

โ€œI think thatโ€™s all good,โ€ Pelosi continued.

โ€œItโ€™s helpful to the women, and thatโ€™s important.

โ€œBut itโ€™s also important to know that this is not right.

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โ€œThis is not the path of freedom for our country.

โ€œSo theyโ€™re putting freedom on the ballot.

โ€œAnd our democracy has been on the ballot because of what they have โ€” are doing to elections.

โ€œBut this is a place where freedom and the kitchen table issues of Americaโ€™s families come together.

โ€œWhat are the decisions that a family makes?

โ€œWhat about contraception for young people?

โ€œItโ€™s just beyond a particular situation.

โ€œItโ€™s massive, in terms of contraception, in vitro fertilization, again, a womanโ€™s right to decide.

โ€œAnd itโ€™s OK โ€” we want to mitigate for the damage, but we have to get rid of the damage.

โ€œWho would have ever suspected that a creature like Donald Trump would become president of the United States by waving a list of judges he would appoint, therefore, getting the support of the far-right โ€” and appointing those anti-freedom justices to the court.

โ€œSo, this is not about long game.

โ€œWe played a long game. We won Roe v. Wade a long time ago.

โ€œWe voted to protect it over time.

โ€œLetโ€™s not take our eye off the ball.

โ€œThe ball is this court, which is dangerous to the freedoms of our country.

โ€œBeware in terms of marriage equality, beware in terms of other aspects of it, and so it is.

โ€œLetโ€™s not waste our time on that.

โ€œThe fact is, this is a dangerous court to families, to freedom in our country.

โ€œAnd that is why people have to mobilize,โ€ she said.

โ€œMy saying is: โ€˜We donโ€™t agonize, we organize.โ€™

โ€œWe go out there and make sure people know that if they, actually elections have consequences.โ€

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