Posted on 08/19/2019 3:19:56 PM PDT by Morgana
ST. LOUIS — Presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand trumpeted her support of abortion access and reproductive choice for women during a town hall Sunday in Delmar Hall. The event was attended by hundreds of people, days before severe abortion restrictions are set to take effect in Missouri.
“We need a next president who is unabashedly pro-choice,” Gillibrand told the crowd. “Someone who is going to see women’s reproductive freedom as the basic civil rights and human rights that they are. They should be our decisions to be made, no matter what.”
Gillibrand is vying for the Democratic presidential nomination against 22 other candidates, and women’s reproductive rights is one of her main political platforms. During the town hall, Gillibrand reiterated her promise that if she were president, she would only appoint judges and Supreme Court justices who accept the Roe v. Wade court decision as “settled precedent.”
The New York senator came to St. Louis 10 days before a new Missouri law goes into effect, banning most abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy. In May, Gov. Mike Parson signed the bill, which makes no exceptions for abortions in cases of rape or incest. Public defenders say the measure could result in women being charged with felonies for terminating a pregnancy.
“They’re totally not giving women choices about their lives and families,” said Jane Bornstein, a former Planned Parenthood board member in Texas who attended the St. Louis town hall. “It makes me think of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’”
A long line of people waited in the afternoon heat on Sunday to enter the town hall, many of them sporting bright pink Planned Parenthood T-shirts. Several protesters stood alongside the line of town hall attendees holding large posters with graphic depictions of aborted fetuses.
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“Reproductive rights” = killing the unborn human, aka, abortion. The left is very good at using language to deceive.
Murdering babies is an especially evil political platform. But the commie/ extreme leftists tend to have a lot of evil ideas
“The event was attended by hundreds of people, days before severe abortion restrictions are set to take effect in Missouri.”
The army of Satan continues to grow.
KEEP THEM DEAD BABIES COMING!!!
Why do they call it Reproductive Rights? Wouldn’t it be clearer if they called it The Right to not Reproduce?
“”They should be our decisions to be made, no matter what.””
Kinda like our right to have weapons??? NO MATTER WHAT?
We’re not protecting that right because we want weapons to kill people unlike you who want that ??RIGHT?? so you can kill babies. Isn’t that the truth?
Do you not see the difference, Kirsten?
“”Why do they call it Reproductive Rights? “”
I have been asking that question for years. What is “reproductive” about making sure you don’t “reproduce?”
I guess it could explain all their other nonsense which doesn’t make any sense either. What do they get out of life by being against the tide, I wonder?
“”They’re totally not giving women choices about their lives and families,””
Absent rape, they have the same choice about that as they do anything else in life - say NO...or use birth control. Why is that so darned difficult? I couldn’t get pregnant and didn’t until I was 38 - totally welcome; a difficult delivery but problem free pregnancy - no morning sickness, no labor - but a C section was necessary. We had the sense to keep it from happening again to prevent me from having another baby at an age when I would have been asking for trouble. Worked fine.
Reproductive rights, what a nice euphemism for the ability to kill an innocent child in the mother’s womb. Call it what it really is, sanctioned, even glorified (by the left) murder of innocents on an industrial scale.
The ultimate hypocrisy is killing the baby thus denying the ultimate human right. Abortion is not civil nor humane.
Well said.
Bump!
As long as we're getting real, shouldn't 'Pro-choice' be changed to 'Pro-death?'
The left is very good at using language to deceive.
Absolutely, right.
And the fiendish RATS don’t have a clue about what is really behind mass shootings and other plagues afflicting our nation today.
Openly advocating for the destruction of innocent human life, unborn babies, has so coarsened any respect for life in this country.
Why they rant about these horrific crimes, taking lives, when they have NO conscience whatsoever about promoting abortion if not infanticide???
Get off the stage, you dimwit loser!
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