Women Across The Political Spectrum Take Aim At Texas Abortion Ban
It's not often that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, conservative commentator SE Cupp, White House press secretary Jen Psaki and one-time-George W Bush staffer-turned-MSNBC-host Nicholle Wallace all line up on the same side.
But that's just what the new Texas abortion ban which took effect Wednesday has done.
In fact, women — and many men — have mobilized for reproductive rights in a newly intensified way, as the US Supreme Court silently allowed the law to go into effect by denying an emergency appeal.
The Texas law bans access to all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy; however many women aren't even aware yet that they're pregnant by six weeks.
“The Court’s cowardly decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health is staggering. The House will bring up Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America,” Pelosi tweeted.
Chu's Women’s Health Protection Act would prohibit state laws that impose burdensome requirements on access to reproductive health services, according to the bill’s proponents.
However, the California Democrat's bill would be dead-on-arrival once it were to reach the Senate, due to a certain Republican filibuster.
“Quickly, if you believe in the Constitution, right, and you believe in settled law, whether that’s Roe v. Wade or the Second Amendment, at some point you have to acknowledge this is the country we live in, and so making federal law illegal in some places and then punitive and unsafe for people just isn’t practical and it’s not responsible,” said Cupp, an author and conservative commentator on CNN.
President Biden has come out strongly against the Texas law, and that includes a passionate attack on the law from his White House press secretary, from the perspective of men having control over women's bodies and lives.
“He believes that it's up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor,” Jen Psaki said, referring to Biden. “I know you've never faced those choices, nor have you ever been pregnant, but for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an incredibly difficult thing. The president believes their rights should be respected.”
Wallace, who has gone from White House communications director for George W Bush and campaign staffer for both Bush and for John McCain, to becoming a self-described “self-loathing” former Republican and host at MSNBC, also drilled down on the fact that it's men trying to dictate women's bodies.
“In this moment male governors in Florida and Arizona and Texas don’t want the body to be covered by a four-inch piece of cloth, against mask mandates. We’re going to reach deep into the uterus of a woman and tell all of them to carry [a fetus] — 85 percent of abortions take place after the six-week mark that the Texas law bans,” she said.
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I keep hearing about the Supreme Court upholding the law as it was passed by the voters in Texas who believe that no matter how far along a baby (some use the term fetus but this is a baby) that child deserves to live. I am not going to even try to argue that point but I think it is important to understand that the voters in Texas who voted for this law believe in life for these babies. I am happy to be one of those who voted for life as these babies do not have any voice except for those who believe life begins at conception not when someone decides it is convenient.