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(Kamala) Harris invokes 'Handmaid's Tale' after Alabama lawmakers pass abortion law
The Hill ^ | May 15, 2019 | John Bowden

Posted on 05/15/2019 12:17:59 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) invoked the TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" in a fundraising push for national abortion rights groups in response to the Alabama Senate's passage of a bill that would severely restrict abortion in the state.

In an email, the senator sharply criticized state lawmakers who voted this week for a bill that would criminalize abortion in all cases except for when the life of the mother was endangered by the pregnancy.

"Threatening to punish doctors who provide abortion care with up to 99 years of jail time," Harris wrote. "This isn't a scene from The Handmaid's Tale. This is happening in Alabama -- in our country -- in the year 2019."

"This is a blatant attack on Roe v. Wade. It is a direct attack on women across our country. Restricting access to safe, legal abortion puts women’s lives at risk," she continued. "We cannot afford to wring our hands. We need to fight back now, raising our voices together to say we won’t be dragged backward and putting our collective power to work."

The fundraising email concluded with a call for donations not to Harris's campaign, but rather to a series of organizations such as the National Network of Abortion Funds that provides money for abortion services in the state and around the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: California
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To: Brilliant

Handmaids Tale is a very good depiction what an Islamic society is like. They made it “Christian” for the low I.Q. leftards.


21 posted on 05/15/2019 1:06:30 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: EdnaMode

“national abortion rights”

aka “Baby Killers R US”.


22 posted on 05/15/2019 1:10:30 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: EdnaMode

Sheeeeyit. How many laws do state legislatures and Congress pass every that threaten people with jail time?


23 posted on 05/15/2019 1:15:25 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standaurds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: EdnaMode

How about, SHUT UP AND STAY OUT OF MY STATE, Kamala, and I won’t go to Kalifornia? Is that a deal?


24 posted on 05/15/2019 1:20:51 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: txrefugee

“It makes one wonder about her past.”
Please, she probably had an abortionist on speed dial, even though everything usually went into the “wrong” hole(s) /s;)


25 posted on 05/15/2019 1:26:41 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: shanover

I once saw a graphic here on FR where, on the left side was a doofus in a Handmaid outfit with the caption “Fiction”. On the right was an Mooslim female in a burqa, with the caption “Reality”.

I wish I’d saved that.


26 posted on 05/15/2019 1:27:10 PM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: EdnaMode

Along with utter stupidity...


27 posted on 05/15/2019 1:34:24 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“Abortion care”

I think we have a new oxymoron here, folks!


28 posted on 05/15/2019 1:39:37 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: EdnaMode

Kamala Harris = Handjob’s tail


29 posted on 05/15/2019 1:41:55 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: EdnaMode

One of Margaret Atwood’s works that should have been buried. She is a wonderful writer but Handmaid’s Tale was schlock. Unreadable.

Leave it to these second rate thinkers to base their movement’s rallying cry on bad fiction.


30 posted on 05/15/2019 1:54:02 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: EdnaMode

So, women who want abortions need to move to states that allow abortions. Then they can form charities to pay the travel costs for women who didn’t move but want to go to another state that allows abortion, like New York and CA.


31 posted on 05/15/2019 2:13:23 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a doorw)
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To: EdnaMode
Let us make no mistake about it:

A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!

America cannot survive a Democrat victory in 2020!

32 posted on 05/15/2019 2:18:32 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I don’t think I would have a problem with abortion if I knew these skells would turn out like this


33 posted on 05/15/2019 3:21:42 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: EdnaMode

They all worry about forced pregnancies...

You gotta admire their optimism.


34 posted on 05/15/2019 5:39:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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