Posted on 01/10/2020 10:37:19 AM PST by Morgana
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) gave a speech on the House floor citing what she called the “hypocrisy” of “religious fundamentalists,” who are seeking to prohibit or restrict abortion.
“Religious fundamentalists are currently trying to manipulate the State laws in order to impose their beliefs on an entire society, all with complete disregard for voices and the rights of American women,” she said in this speech that was delivered on May 22.
“This isn't about religious morality or conviction,” she said, “because we have seen time and time again those who talk about their faith and want to push policies because of their faith are the ones who simply are caught with the hypocrisy of not living it out in their personal lives.”
Here is the full text of Omar’s speech:
Ms. Omar: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to defy the horrifying attacks happening against women's reproductive rights all across this country.
Religious fundamentalists are currently trying to manipulate the State laws in order to impose their beliefs on an entire society, all with complete disregard for voices and the rights of American women.
The recent efforts like those in Alabama and Georgia are only the latest in a long history of efforts to criminalize women for simply existing and to punish us when we don't conform to their attempts to control us. And a new proposal in Texas would go as far as to threaten women who obtain an abortion with capital punishment.
If that were being proposed by any other country, we would be calling it a dangerous violation of human rights. But because it is happening here with the support of the ultraconservative religious right, we call it religious freedom. It is simply unthinkable.
But this anti-choice movement isn't only unjust, it is dangerous because history has proven that when abortion is criminalized, the number of abortions do not simply go down. The number of deaths and injuries to women increase.
Let's just be honest. For the religious right, this isn't simply about their care or concern for life. If they cared about or were concerned about children, then they would be concerned about the children who are being detained and those who are dying in camps across our borders or the children who are languishing in hunger and facing homelessness.
This isn't about religious morality or conviction, because we have seen time and time again those who talk about their faith and want to push policies because of their faith are the ones who simply are caught with the hypocrisy of not living it out in their personal lives.
I just remember recently, not too long ago, a Republican Congressman who had to retire, Tim Murphy, because he asked his mistress to abort their baby while pushing for a ban on abortion.
Or I remember the anti-LGBT rights Republican, Larry Craig, who was found soliciting sex in a bathroom in a Minneapolis airport.
I am frustrated every single time I hear people speaking about their faith and pushing that on to other people, because we know those so-called religious politicians, when it comes to their life and their choices, they want to talk about freedom, but when it comes to other people's lives and other people's choices, then they want to talk about religion.
I feel that we must point out how ironic it is that women now are facing these challenges to their freedom in the week that we are marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
How can it be that an entire century has passed, and we are still forced to fight for our rights as women, as human beings, and as Americans?
This should outrage every single person. It certainly outrages me, and we can no longer stand for it.
So today I ask every woman in this country no matter her age, her race, or her political affiliation to stand with me--to stand with us--to stand up and tell those who challenge our voice, our place, and our right to decide for ourselves to not be silent, to speak up and to reclaim their right to choose.
Ya mean just like the dimbulbcrats?
Don’t worry, honey, we won’t make you grow a new clitoris.
Mohammedanism doubles down on “religious fundamentalism”.
Babylon Bee - right?
Only Representative Ilhan Omar can talk about Muslims this way.
Women outnumber men. Women can vote, and they often vote for their own interests.
What is this crazy woman talking about?
Easy to ignore a philandering slut who married her brother and is a tax cheat.
righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people proverbs 14:34
That’s rich coming from a towel head.
AOC is looking in the mirror again.
She has the story backwards.
So says the Whore of Babble-On. Hypocrite of the Year, and that’s against plenty of dummocrap competition. So far, we know she’s committed immigration fraud passing off her brother as her husband and may have committed incest with the bugger, she’s committed tax fraud, she’s committed treason, and heaven knows what else. When is the DHS gonna wake up and deport her? Or, to save postage, just hang her and toss her worthless corpse to pigs.
So I guess the article is about Islam.
Like any Islamic republic, right?
This turbaned biytch means Christians. In reality, it’s the beard and burka bunch that is “Trying to Manipulate State Laws in Order to Impose Their Beliefs on an Entire Society”
Get out of my country, fascist totalitarian fundamentalist biytch!
How very Khmer Rouge.
This is FR, you ask forgiveness if you actually read the article...
Don’t you think?
CC
So because of 2 badly behaving Republican politicians - not at all representative of the true Pro-Life movement in this country - we should ignore the fact that millions believe abortion is murder and continue killing babies. Okay, got it.
Exactly, and that’s why she ran for office in the first place.
She’s the first foot in the door.
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