Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove— “To them the Handmaid’s Tale isn’t a horror, it’s a fantasy. But this movement is the Woman King.”
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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove— “To them the Handmaid’s Tale isn’t a horror, it’s a fantasy. But this movement is the Woman King.”
WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) joined House Democrats for their weekly Caucus Press Conference. During this press conference commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove brought attention to House Republicans’ repeated attempts to enact a nationwide abortion ban against the will of voters. The Congresswoman reiterated her support of women’s rights to make their own personal healthcare decisions.
“To them the Handmaid’s Tale isn’t a horror, it’s a fantasy,” Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove said. “But this movement is the Woman King, and we are not going without a fight.”
The full transcript of Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove’s remarks can be found below:
It is no doubt that the pro-choice movement was dealt a massive blow last June. This conservative activist supreme Court overturned decades of precedent.
They stripped away Americans freedom to make their own healthcare decision, especially a woman’s right to make choices about her own body and a doctor’s right to provide her care.
And as a result, they are putting all of our lives at risk.
Republicans across the country are trying to bring us back to the days of back-alley coat hanger abortions with deadly consequences.
Women are being forced to travel hundreds of miles, leaving their children behind, risking their jobs, all to have access to basic healthcare. This harms the women who are most at-risk of having less access to healthcare in the first place, poor women, brown women, women in rural communities.
But we will not allow them to drag us back to the 1970s. This movement has always been bigger than Roe.
We saw in red state Kansas where voters shocked the nation by coming out to protect abortion access in their state.
We saw it again in Nov, when voters across the country stood up and showed out for abortions rights. Voters said: “women matter. Healthcare matters. Freedom matters. Abortion matters.”
And even still, extreme Republicans have been itching to enact a nationwide abortion ban. Extreme Republicans have already proposed one.
They want to control women, take away our freedoms, and limit our bodily autonomy.
To them, the Handmaids Tale isn’t a horror; it’s a fantasy. But this movement is the Woman King, and we are not going without a fight.
We will not let the Republican party erode the rights of women across the country and turn out the light of democracy.
I’m here to say, as a proud member of the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood LA, that women have the right to control their own personal decision making, women have the right to fully control our bodies, lives, families, and futures, and we have a responsibility to put an end to politicians inserting themselves into doctors’ offices and the uteruses of women throughout the country.
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