(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In a cheerful Mother’s Day address, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, made a statement saying not allowing abortion was “disrespectful” to women, The Daily Wire reported.
Pelosi made these remarks on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan.
The comments came in the wake of a Supreme Court leak, which contained a draft that indicated Roe v. Wade may be struck down.
The draft, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “we hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.”
“This is a constant fight that we’ve had for generations, decades, I should say in my case in the Congress and the—we had been bipartisan early on, support for a woman’s right to choose until the politics have changed,” Pelosi claimed. “And that’s what happened with the court. The science hasn’t changed… but the court changed.”
“This is about something so serious and so personal and so disrespectful of women,” she said. “Here we are on Mother’s Day, a week where the court has slapped women in the face in terms of disrespect for their judgments about the size and timing of their families. So, the fact is, let’s keep our eye on the ball. The ball is in the court of those justices.”
“The enshrinement of Roe v. Wade into the law is the way in order to protect a woman’s right to choose,” Pelosi later added. “But this year, either for the enshrinement of Roe v. Wade, or you’re not. It’s the law of the land.”
.@margbrennan: Should Democrats have fought harder for abortion rights in 2009?
Speaker Pelosi: “In 2009 we did not have a pro-choice Democratic party…Right now we do have a pro-choice Democratic Congress and we passed the law months ago” pic.twitter.com/almjExDMBt
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 8, 2022
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