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House Dem speaks about her own abortion: Government has 'no right in my uterus'
FOX ^ | May 21, 2019 | Sam Dorman | Fox News

Posted on 05/21/2019 10:21:06 AM PDT by Morgana

Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has defended women having the right to choose and attacked government officials trying to force decisions on women, detailing her own experience with having an abortion in the process.

"The government has no right in my uterus, has no right in my vagina, and it’s time for us to be very clear and straightforward about that," she told CNN's Alisyn Camerota.

Speier's appearance came after she tweeted about her own abortion on Thursday. "It was the best choice for my health & my family. While it was an immensely hard decision, I don't regret it," she said.

Speier, speaking to Camerota, described her abortion as "a painful process" and said that the fetus wouldn't have survived outside of the womb.

“It was a second-trimester abortion, the fetus had dropped through the cervix and into the vagina,” she said. She expressed frustration over the allegedly cavalier way that her male colleagues discussed the issue, suggesting that women had abortions "without any thought."

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KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife
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To: Morgana

Yet they demanded the Fraud’s administration to be in their bedrooms.


41 posted on 05/21/2019 11:05:22 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: dfwgator

No, they don’t, nor do they have a right to terminate a life under these circumstances, regardless of who pays for it.


42 posted on 05/21/2019 11:05:26 AM PDT by cdcdawg (If white, western culture makes you feel out of place, THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE!)
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To: Morgana

And she has no right to make the public feel guilty if they do not want to see unnecessary abortion from ghouls who claim their own freedom when in fact having no affection for it.

This is how they reverse the guilt perception.


43 posted on 05/21/2019 11:05:48 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Morgana

Then go to a ledge and threaten to jump off, Jackie

It’s your life, after all. We’ll just watch and take photos.

JUMP JUMP JUMP !!


44 posted on 05/21/2019 11:06:18 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: Morgana

“It was the best choice for my health & my family. While it was an immensely hard decision, I don’t regret it,”...said the executioner.


45 posted on 05/21/2019 11:06:38 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: caww

This woman’s story does not sound like a voluntary abortion, but like a miscarriage or still birth, maybe with medical intervention. The second trimester child was out of the womb and in the birth canal. A natural loss of pregnancy. I am so sorry for her loss.


46 posted on 05/21/2019 11:07:12 AM PDT by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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To: Morgana

There was a very vulgar tweet last week that I won’t repeat here except to say that it is a haunted vajajay and that person was having nothing to doing with haunted vajajay...


47 posted on 05/21/2019 11:08:13 AM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Morgana

“suggesting that women had abortions “without any thought.””

You know, I’m sure a lot of people on death row put a lot of thought into their murders too. Not sure how that changes the facts of the matter though.


48 posted on 05/21/2019 11:10:26 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: a fool in paradise

This woman always amazes me. .She almost gets killed by Jim Jones cult and her party has evolved into the Jim Jones cult and she stays in the party.. just amazing.


49 posted on 05/21/2019 11:11:53 AM PDT by scbison
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To: Morgana

“appellant and some amici argue that the woman’s right is absolute and that she is entitled to terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever way, and for whatever reason she alone chooses. With this we do not agree. Appellant’s arguments that Texas either has no valid interest at all in regulating the abortion decision, or no interest strong enough to support any limitation upon the woman’s sole determination, are unpersuasive. The Court’s decisions recognizing a right of privacy also acknowledge that some state regulation in areas protected by that right is appropriate. As noted above, a State may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and in protecting potential life. At some point in pregnancy, these respective interests become sufficiently compelling to sustain regulation of the factors that govern the abortion decision.”

Roe v Wade, majority opinion


50 posted on 05/21/2019 11:11:59 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Morgana

“..The government has no right in my uterus, has no right in my vagina..”

And harridans like this specimen accuse men with being obsessed with their organs?


51 posted on 05/21/2019 11:16:00 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Morgana

And neither did her child.

In evaluating her politics and the policies she will embrace, well...if she will kill her own kid then she will be okay with policies that kill you and your kids.


52 posted on 05/21/2019 11:16:43 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Morgana

“In 1828, New York enacted legislation that, in two respects, was to serve as a model for early anti-abortion statutes. First, while barring destruction of an unquickened fetus as well as a quick fetus, it made the former only a misdemeanor, but the latter second-degree manslaughter. Second, it incorporated a concept of therapeutic abortion by providing that an abortion was excused if it “shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose.” By 1840, when Texas had received the common law, only eight American States had statutes dealing with abortion. It was not until after the War Between the States that legislation began generally to replace the common law. Most of these initial statutes dealt severely with abortion after quickening but were lenient with it before quickening. Most punished attempts equally with completed abortions. While many statutes included the exception for an abortion thought by one or more physicians to be necessary to save the mother’s life, that provision soon disappeared and the typical law required that the procedure actually be necessary for that purpose.”

Roe v Wade


53 posted on 05/21/2019 11:17:13 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: IronJack

“...The government has no right in my uterus, has no right in my vagina, ..”

Pictures, pictures!


54 posted on 05/21/2019 11:17:30 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Morgana

Speier is living proof the Jonestown shooters were in too much of a hurry to check their work.


55 posted on 05/21/2019 11:18:42 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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To: Morgana
described her abortion as "a painful process" especially for the baby, who was killed by dismemberment.
56 posted on 05/21/2019 11:18:52 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Morgana

“England’s first criminal abortion statute, Lord Ellenborough’s Act, 43 Geo. 3, c. 58, came in 1803. It made abortion of a quick fetus, § 1, a capital crime, but in § 2 it provided lesser penalties for the felony of abortion before quickening.”

Roe v Wade


57 posted on 05/21/2019 11:20:11 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Morgana

Baby to Doctor: “Your forceps have no right in my brain”


58 posted on 05/21/2019 11:25:11 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Morgana

Dear Jackie: On the day you come face to face with God with your aborted child beside Him, will you still have “no regrets?” I think not.


59 posted on 05/21/2019 11:27:57 AM PDT by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: Morgana

The Govt has a right to dictate that you can’t SELL your organs and passed a law to that effect...so YES, the Govt can have rights to your body.


60 posted on 05/21/2019 11:28:36 AM PDT by RummyChick (I have no inside sources, media sources, or federal government employee sources. NONE)
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