Elissa Slotkin, Democrat Representative from
Michigan, accusing congressional Republicans of turning the Solid Start Act, a
bipartisan bill to help the nation’s veterans into “a cold heartless, violent”
referendum on the right to abortion:
“In terms of making decisions on behalf of women, if you
want to take a veterans’ bill and make it about abortion, then let’s do it. What
you are saying—and you’re saying in front of the American people—is that you
believe a veteran who has been raped, who was the victim of incest, or who is
having a dangerous miscarriage, does not deserve access to abortion. If you
can’t state it, then be clear you believe in no exceptions for women—a cold
heartless, violent approach to women’s health. You want to ban all abortions.
That is your goal. Many of you have been open about that, and if you flip the
House, we know that you will put forward a full ban on all abortion for all
states. We are all, on this floor, elected officials and not medical
professionals. If it was your wife, your daughter who was suffering through a
miscarriage, are you going to tell her she can’t until her fever gets high
enough and until she’s bleeding harder? If that’s what you want for veterans,
shame on you! Shame on you!”
Slotkin’s Solid Start Act helps veterans transition into
civilian society but Republicans tried to block it after learning it includes a
“requirement that the Department of Veterans Affairs provide female veterans
with information ‘tailored to their specific health care’ needs,” which would
adhere to a new VA policy providing abortion access for women vets who are
victims of rape, incest or whose life is jeopardized.
Good on Representative Slotkin for pointing out that, for
the GOP, rapists and child molesters deserve more rights than women, and we
know this because traitorous House GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s plan
for the GOP to take back the House says in a section called “Preserve Our
Constitutional Freedoms” that Republicans will “protect the lives of unborn children and their mothers.”
Unless the unborn child is the child of an illiterate asshat
running for Senate as a Republican, then abortion is fine.
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