Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Senate Republicans Introducing A MAGA GOP Nationwide Abortion Ban

Washington, D.C. –  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on MAGA Republicans introducing a radical nationwide abortion ban after insisting that the Supreme Court Dobbs decision would mean abortion would be left to the states. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks:

Shortly after the news leaked that the US Supreme Court was ready to overturn Roe v Wade, Leader McConnell acknowledged that a federal ban on abortion was now “possible.” His words.

Well, later today the Senior Senator from South Carolina is going to make good on Leader McConnell’s warning by introducing a radical bill to institute a nationwide restriction on abortions.

Proposals like the one today send a clear message from MAGA Republicans to women across the country: your body, our choice.

Rather than expanding women’s rights, MAGA Republicans would curtail them. Rather than give individuals the freedom to make their own health care choices, they’d hand that power over to radical politicians.

And let me add this: Republicans are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to explain why they want nationwide abortion bans when they said they’d leave it up to the states.

Even the Senior Senator from South Carolina said a few months ago that “If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade” it would mean that “every state will decide if abortion is legal and on what terms.”

And yet here he is, introducing a bill to restrict abortions nationally.

For the hard right, this has never been about states’ rights. This has never been about letting Texas choose its own path while California takes another.

No: For MAGA Republicans, this has always been about making abortion illegal everywhere.

The contrast has become clear: while Democrats want to protect a woman’s freedom to choose, MAGA Republicans want to take that right away with proposals to ban abortions, to punish women and doctors for carrying out abortions, and even to push bans with no exceptions for rape or incest. We are seeing it play out across the country, it is chilling, chilling to the bone.

Every single American should stand in opposition against these radical MAGA Republican views.

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