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.
I’m often amazed at various leftists who maintain:
1. all conservatives are racist white males
2. we would all be happy to have our own children and grandchildren killed, but demand that all ‘persons of color’ carry to term.
To Omar——you don’t have to be religious to realize dismembering a child is wrong and should be illegal.
I didn’t read the article because it’s probably as idiotic as Omar. I wish she would go back to her country of origin and stay there.
Lefty would have us believe that Christians are not perfectly free to participate in govt.
When a iconic Lefty position is legally challenged, Lefty has two choices:
1) to convincingly argue otherwise
2) Stomp his foot and command, “Citizen: OBEY!”
As Virginia is playing out it seems option 2 is the fallback choice for a Lefty.
Patriots are reminded that, in stark contrast to the rights that the post-American Revolution states amended the Constitution to expressly protect in the Bill of Rights and later amendments to the Constitution, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the Democratic vote-winning, politically correct right to murder unborn children.
In other words, pro-abortion activist Supreme Court justices scandalously legislated from the bench the fictitious “constitutional” right to have an abortion imo.
The bottom line is that since there is no express constitutional right to have an abortion, the states are free to make laws prohibiting abortion, regardless that several generations of low-information state lawmakers evidently haven’t understood this, low-information voters not helping this hellish situation imo.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
“She seems to be equating the desire for religious freedom in the public square with IMPOSING one’s religious beliefs.”
That may be true, but I see in her examples of hypocrisy how Biblical morality is what is being foisted upon these followers of Molech, and Sodomites.
Virginia is one of the states doing that right now.
Kind of like the atheists (Dems) attempting to force their religion on the rest of us.
She’s a marxist , like the more radical palestinians, and not an islamist. A true muslim would be opposed to abortion... marxists embrace it.
All this talk about women’s reproductive rights when abortion, where at least half the victims are baby girls and future women, is a violation of evrry one of the victim’s women’s rights.
In muslim belief, everyone is born muslim, and some are then corrupted and led astray. So technically she’s saying she’s OK with murdering muslims if they’re in the way of a muslim winning reelection by kissing up to feminazis.
In Islam it is thought that the soul doesn’t enter the fetus until the 120th day of gestation, so there’s room for abortion in their theology -according to some, not all- up to that point.
Now if someone harms a pregnant woman causing the death of the fetus then they owe the woman a fine male or female slave as compensation...and if the pregnant woman dies then the perp is to be executed.
Of course they have as many flavors of ‘Islam’ as Christians have of ‘Christianity’ so your mileage may vary.
“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.”
Like murderous Muslims such as yourself Omar?
You are a slithering snake in the grass and a planted enemy agent of the United States!
Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black?
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