House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blatantly disparaged the United States Supreme Court in a recent letter to congressional Democrats, reacting to the Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision which overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The ruling essentially resets abortion regulation to its pre-1973 state, adjudicated by the individual states.
“While this extremist Supreme Court works to punish and control the American people, Democrats must continue our fight to expand freedom in America,” wrote Pelosi, who came under fire for sending incendiary fundraising emails following the decision.
Pelosi, who is serving her 18th term in congress, reminded her coworkers that Americans“spoke out in large numbers about their opposition” to the Court’s decision, calling it “disrespect for a woman’s freedom over her reproductive health.”
She also singled out Justice Clarence Thomas, who released a concurring viewpoint and composed that in future cases, the Court must reconsider “all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergfell.” Those precedents concerned rights for same-sex marital relationship and contraceptive access.
“In his disturbing concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas confirmed many of our deepest fears about where this decision may lead: taking aim at additional long-standing precedent and cherished privacy rights, from access to contraception and in-vitro fertilization to marriage equality,” she wrote. “It is still appalling to me that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would agree that a Constitutional right does not exist if it was not spelled out explicitly and in public when the 14th Amendment was ratified over 150 years ago.”
The House Speaker added: “While this extremist Supreme Court works to punish and control the American people, Democrats must continue our fight to expand freedom in America. Doing so is foundational to our oath of office and our fidelity to the Constitution.”
CBS News/YouGov surveys taken the day the decision was announced and the day after showed that a lot of Americans consider the reversing of Roe v. Wade a step backward for America. Three-fourths of Republicans approved it, whereas 83 percent of Democrats did not approve of the decision.
Pelosi is advising Home Democrats to think about legislation that safeguards women’s personal information that’s kept in reproductive apps. She mentioned that lots of fear the info could be utilized against women by a “sinister prosecutor” in a state that forbids abortion. She also showed Democrats, who hold a majority in your house, ought to take another vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify legal abortion into federal law.
The bill passed in the House recently, however it stalled in the Senate. It’s unclear if any Senate votes have actually changed based upon the decision from the Court and polling data taken later. But, Pelosi stated it was “essential” that they expand Democratic representation to filibuster-proof bulks in the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.
H/T Timcast
