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Abortion Is ‘Liberty Itself’: Elizabeth Banks, Busy Philipps Rally at SCOTUS
mrcNewsbusters ^ | March 4, 2020 | Gabriel Hays

Posted on 03/05/2020 12:49:32 AM PST by Morgana

Hollywood actresses always seem to make an appearance whenever there's a chance that one less baby might be aborted.

Celebrity feminists Elizabeth Banks and Busy Philipps joined Democratic lawmakers and pro-abortion demonstrators at the foot of the Supreme Court on March 4 to stand in solidarity with baby-killing as a recent legal case involving the procedure was being heard.

The demonstration, led by pro-choice non-profit the Center for Reproductive Rights, happened while the nation’s highest court was hearing “oral arguments in June Medical Services v. Russo,” which news site Mashable described as “a case that will determine the fate of abortion access in Louisiana and has the potential to undermine abortion rights across the United States.”

In a bid to stop a Louisiana law “that would ostensibly shutter all but one abortion clinic” in the state, the non-profit’s lawyers argued their case before the Supreme Court and had their public relations mouthpieces like Banks and Philipps whipping up the crowds outside.The Hollywood actresses were joined by pro-choice Dems such as Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) along with even Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Philipps, an actress from Freaks and Geeks, activist and rabid pro-abort, addressed the supporters outside the Supreme Court. Not only did she speak about the importance of all women’s choice, she also mentioned how important it was for her to get her own abortion.

“What matters is that we are loud and heard. I will not be shamed into being quiet. We will not be shamed into being quiet again. I will never stop talking about my abortions,” she told the crowd.

Philipps revealed an abortion from her past during an episode of her E! talk show Busy Lately last spring. She felt compelled to defend abortion in the wake of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signing the state’s “heartbeat bill,” telling viewers, “I had an abortion when I was fifteen years old, and I’m telling you this because I’m genuinely really scared for women and girls all over this country.”

Banks, the director of recent feminist flop Charlie's Angels and Chair of the Center for Reproductive Rights’ Creative Council, told the crowd that abortions are fundamental to freedom. She claimed, “Today we are taking the opportunity to present reproductive freedom, including abortion, for exactly what it is: no less than liberty itself.”

Banks’s speech also included anecdotes about blue collar folks and people of faith having abortions, as if that was supposed to change conservatives’ minds: “Rural people have abortions. People of faith have abortions. Anti-choice people have abortions.” Yeah, those folks are what we would call hypocrites.

In another viral moment from the abortion rally, Sen. Schumer threatened conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh should they vote against pro-choice cases. Schumer addressed them at the podium, saying “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Schumer's comments, saying, "Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous."

Sounds like these folks are getting pretty desperate.


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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Perhaps all three. Or a combination of them.


21 posted on 03/05/2020 6:26:39 AM PST by sport
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To: vpintheak; Morgana; Gene Eric

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22 posted on 03/05/2020 6:34:41 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by diabolical disorientation. -Mrs Dono)
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To: Leep

“...they are haunted for the rest of their lives.”

You give them too much credit. If they were concerned about the act, then why didn’t they prevent it from happening? I can promise you that there are a large amount of women in the group that are not going to give bad feelings a second thought. If the ones that I’m talking about, the ones getting rid of the child for convenience and not for any other purpose like rape or illness, then why would they abort if they are going to suffer in the future? And you can’t, unfortunately, have the government stepping in to determine the validity of abortion as with what they can determine legitimizes both aspects. One may be reasonable, the other is nothing more than murder.

rwood


23 posted on 03/05/2020 8:47:55 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: Morgana

“Kill the baby”, the DemocRAT party Prime Directive since the 70s.


24 posted on 03/05/2020 9:27:59 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: CodeToad; Morgana
Half right. The first and only time women voted as more-or-less a united bloc, was in voting in prohibition. A bad incident. But I don't call it a bad "precedent," because there was no "subsequent." That kind of female bloc-voting never happened again.

Abortion was not legalized by the actions of the female subset of he electorate. Between the late 60's and the early 70's, a quite limited legalization of criminal abortion was OK'd in a handful of states (Ny, CA), but turned back in an even greater number of instances by the electorate (male and female) at the state level.

Then it was forced on the entire country by nine unelected, black-robed MEN in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

Something we never asked for, that they gave us--- good and hard.

25 posted on 03/05/2020 11:56:17 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by diabolical disorientation. -Mrs Dono)
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To: Morgana

26 posted on 03/07/2020 11:01:18 AM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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