"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 …
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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00:00A party and individuals who claim to protect the lives of children just weeks after over
00:07a dozen children died in Texas now claim to support their life.
00:13Every single one of us has woken up today with less rights than we had yesterday.
00:18And with so many individuals out here, I think it's important for us to also tackle this
00:23myth that this is somehow about babies or children or life.
00:30Because the same individuals who purport, claim to be protecting life, fight against
00:42universal health care.
00:45Do they believe in universal child care?
00:48Do they believe in life after birth?
00:54From their policy positions, I assure you, the evidence is lacking.
01:00Who are we protecting?
01:03Who does this protect?
01:09No one.
01:12Overturning Roe puts every single one of us in danger.
01:20And what I think many of our colleagues perhaps haven't quite or perhaps they have fully understood
01:27is that this also undermines the right to privacy in the United States of America.
01:36But we are here to solve this issue.
01:40Our job is to develop a path forward.
01:44And in that, we know that this House has passed and is willing to codify Roe.
01:53But what we also need is answers from our colleagues in the United States Senate.
01:58So to those senators who voted for these justices under the claim and the guise that this would
02:08not happen, this decision falls on them.
02:13What will they do as they were lied to?
02:19What will they do as a consequence of this decision?
02:26Whether that be Republican or Democrat.
02:32But we cannot allow this to go on unanswered.
02:38We are talking about a court with the majority of justices appointed by a party that has
02:45not won a popular presidential election more than once in 30 years.
02:54Ruling against the majority of Americans.
02:58We will not stop fighting until this is fixed.
03:04And I say that to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
03:08We are not going away.
03:12We stay.
03:14We fight.
03:17We push.
03:20And we will not be silenced.