TRANSCRIPT: Majority Leader Schumer Remarks At Press Conference With Senate Democratic Women On Continuing To Fight To Protect A Woman’s Right To An Abortion From MAGA Republicans

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today delivered remarks at a press conference with other Senate Democratic women on the continued fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own decisions from MAGA Republicans pushing to ban abortion without exceptions. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks:

Last week, the American people saw for themselves the stark contrast between: Democrats who will fight to protect a woman’s rights to make decisions about their body and MAGA Republicans want a national abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.

Last week’s vote threw a floodlight on what the Republican real objective is.

It’s not “states’ rights.” It’s not investigating a SCOTUS leak.

Their real objective is to rip away women’s rights and get rid of abortion altogether, to come between women and their doctors, and stop them from getting the health care they need.

The real Republican objective is “your body, their choice.”

The MAGA extremists controlling the Republican party are putting our children at risk of inheriting a country where our children have fewer rights than their parents had, and that is so un-American. That is such a giant step backward. 

The overturning of Roe would be the greatest backslide of individual liberties in half a century.

MAGA Republicans want to prosecute and even imprison women and doctors for carrying out abortions, even friends who give their loved ones a ride to the clinic. 

This is a dire and vital issue for over 100 million American women whose rights are at stake.

So the choice facing America is simple: elect more MAGA Republicans who want forced pregnancies and champion bans without exception; or elect pro-choice Democrats who will protect women’s rights.

When Americans go to the polls in November, they will choose between radical MAGA Republicans who want to get rid of Roe or pro-choice Democrats who will protect a woman’s right to make her own decisions.

Democrats will not stop fighting for this crucial and important issue because women’s rights are human rights. And as much as Republicans try to deflect, distort, or distract, the unbendable truth is their anti-women views are wildly out of step with the American people.

In fact, they know this. They know they’re on the wrong side of history, they know they’re on the wrong side of women. They know they’re on the wrong side of where Americans want to be. The Republican campaign committees, in their literature, continue to urge their candidates to avoid the subject of abortion. Ask yourself why. They tried to feel they could get this done without an outcry, but an outcry from one end of America to the other is, and they’re on the wrong side of history.

Our communities are not going to let MAGA Republicans take away our rights. We're going to confront this challenge the same way we've confronted them during the four years of Donald Trump's presidency.

Republicans can’t run from this issue. We’re going to get organized and we’re going to win at the ballot box.

Last week’s vote was only one step – not the end – of the fight for women.

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