Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal

Abortion is health care. — PolitiTweet.org

Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal

RT @commondreams: "This Supreme Court is out of touch with the American people and increasingly suffers a legitimacy crisis." @RepJayapal h… — PolitiTweet.org

Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal

The Supreme Court is facing a legitimacy crisis. https://t.co/YC8u8WAZcL — PolitiTweet.org

Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal

Abortion will not be going away. But legal abortion will for millions of women across this country. https://t.co/WGDPU2Gp3g — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the beginning of stripping other precedents like same-sex marriage, interracial marriage and even the right to contraception. And that is why our work now MUST be this: to turn our fury & frustration into organizing in the streets & for the elections. Let's go. ​✊🏿​[9/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence has called for a nationwide ban on abortion, the radical Republican plan from the start. The dissent says: “Most threatening of all, no language in today’s decision stops the Federal Govt from prohibiting abortions nationwide…without exceptions for rape or incest.” [8/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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From the dissent: “People did not ratify the 14th Amendment. [Cis] men did. So it is perhaps not so surprising that ratifiers weren't perfectly attuned to importance of repro rights for women’s liberty, or for their capacity to participate as equal members of our Nation.” [7/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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If a protected right must be "deeply rooted in history" as this radical SCOTUS majority claims, then it means that if framers of the Constitution or Amendments did not see reproductive freedom 100s of years ago as a right, it doesn’t exist. Who ratified 14th Amendment? Men. [6/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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This decision is insulting. From the dissent: “Majority does not think forced childbirth implicates a woman’s rights to equality & freedom…Court does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body & path of her life.” [5/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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Banning abortions increases maternal mortality by 21%, but unequally: 13% for white women; 33% for Black women. Poor people won't be able to travel across states to get an abortion. Abortion will still happen - illegally, unsafely. And people will be criminalized. [4/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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Our rights & status as "free and equal citizens" are fundamentally curtailed today. Will we be able to work when we want? Plan our pregnancies? How will we ensure we can afford children? How to we protect our lives or the life of a fetus we are now forced to carry? [3/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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@Scotus From the dissent: “Today’s decision, taken on its own, is catastrophic enough…the Court’s precedents about bodily autonomy, sexual & familial relations, and procreation are all interwoven …especially [for] women’s lives, where they safeguard a right to self-determination” [2/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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🧵on the devastating, catastrophic @SCOTUS decision. Fundamental to everything: women & pregnant people across America have dramatically fewer rights than we did yesterday. Several quotes from the dissenting opinion (very worth reading) [1/9] — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CrossConnection: “These Justices lied to get on the Supreme Court…and they did something absolutely unprecedented which is to overturn… — PolitiTweet.org

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The decision to have an abortion is a deeply personal one. For me, it was incredibly difficult, but it was MY decision. And it's a decision that belongs to only the pregnant person and who they choose to involve. https://t.co/XeY5MRuVZc — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's decision strips away the freedoms, liberties, and status of women and pregnant people across this country. This is an absolute disgrace. https://t.co/HjuVRODN8x — PolitiTweet.org

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Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land since 1973, when it was decided by a 7-2 majority on the Court. Today's ruling overturns decades of precedent. We must codify the right to abortion in this country. — PolitiTweet.org

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It is simply nobody’s business what choices we as pregnant people make about our own bodies. For me, terminating my pregnancy was an incredibly difficult decision, but it was MY decision. That is what must be preserved regardless of zip code. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ELLEmagazine: Like 60% of women in the U.S. who have abortions, @RepJayapal was already a mother when she decided she needed abortion c… — PolitiTweet.org

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People deserve the right to make their own choices about their own bodies. We must continue to organize and fight this decision. https://t.co/sKmAj93zfK — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's radical decision is wildly out of step with the will of the American people. This Supreme Court is out of touch with the American people and increasingly suffers a legitimacy crisis. https://t.co/UqkjFTMcJ0 — PolitiTweet.org

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The states that will be quickest to ban abortion also have some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. Abortion bans are not about protecting mothers and children, they are solely about right wing extremists controlling our bodies. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TaylorVanCise: We continue to gather reaction to the overturning of #RoeVWade. Coming up at 12:30 on @newsradionw, we'll be speaking wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @commondreams: "This Supreme Court is out of touch with the American people and increasingly suffers a legitimacy crisis." @RepJayapal h… — PolitiTweet.org

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While today's ruling is extremely horrifying for women and pregnant people across this country, abortion is STILL LEGAL in Washington State. https://t.co/Ik40LR0ufj — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytimes: Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer dissented to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Re… — PolitiTweet.org

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After a decades-long campaign, the extreme right has stripped pregnant people of the freedom to make their own decisions about their own future. I am furious today — all of us must continue to take this righteous anger to the streets and to the voting booths. https://t.co/hi1QznEhNP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JulieCalhounTV: WA Congresswoman @RepJayapal releases statement after SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade — PolitiTweet.org

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13 states have trigger laws in place — meaning that in the coming days millions of people will be stripped of the right to a legal abortion, of the freedom to make their own health decisions. Millions of pregnant people will face felony charges for seeking a medical procedure. — PolitiTweet.org

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SCOTUS and the GOP in Congress won't stop here. The justices explicitly say the Court should reconsider ‘all substantive due process precedents,’ i.e. the right to contraception, same-sex marriage, and same-sex relationships. The Court's majority has no respect for precedent. — PolitiTweet.org