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 CNNโs โState 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, โWhat can you do to help women who will be seeking abortions, but live in states where itโs banned.
โFor example, would you encourage private companies to provide travel for abortions as a health benefit?โ
Pelosi said, โWell, of course, that, but the fact is we, as a country โ this is โ letโs just put this in perspective.
โWhat we want women and families and everyone to focus on is the nature of this decision.
โThis is โ our country, the genius of our founders was to have a Constitution that enabled freedom to expand.
โAnd it did with marriage equality, it did with Roe v. Wade, in many ways, defining freedom more fully.โ
โThis is the first time the court has taken back a freedom that was defined by precedent and respect for privacy.
โSo, letโs stay focused on who we are as the country and not turn into something where we have to depend on the privacy.
โI think thatโs all good,โ Pelosi continued.
โItโs helpful to the women, and thatโs important.
โBut itโs also important to know that this is not right.
โThis is not the path of freedom for our country.
โSo theyโre putting freedom on the ballot.
โAnd our democracy has been on the ballot because of what they have โ are doing to elections.
โBut this is a place where freedom and the kitchen table issues of Americaโs families come together.
โWhat are the decisions that a family makes?
โWhat about contraception for young people?
โItโs just beyond a particular situation.
โItโs massive, in terms of contraception, in vitro fertilization, again, a womanโs right to decide.
โAnd itโs OK โ we want to mitigate for the damage, but we have to get rid of the damage.
โWho 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.
โSo, this is not about long game.
โWe played a long game. We won Roe v. Wade a long time ago.
โWe voted to protect it over time.
โLetโs not take our eye off the ball.
โThe ball is this court, which is dangerous to the freedoms of our country.
โBeware in terms of marriage equality, beware in terms of other aspects of it, and so it is.
โLetโs not waste our time on that.
โThe fact is, this is a dangerous court to families, to freedom in our country.
โAnd that is why people have to mobilize,โ she said.
โMy saying is: โWe donโt agonize, we organize.โ
โWe go out there and make sure people know that if they, actually elections have consequences.โ
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