They changed the time of the January 6th hearing. It starts at 1pm.
Khiara Bridges: In the 1980's, during the crack cocaine scare, states began using creative interpretations of the criminal law to prosecute black people who used the drug during their pregnancies.
[she is acting as if that never applied to white women]
No surprise- both of the pro-abortion black woman testifying are woke racists. The Lt. Governor of Illinois is a disgrace.
Heidi Matzke: We [pro-life pregnancy center] have been forced to hire 24hr on-site security, we've had to reinforce doors, and bullet-proof our walls. We've had to paint our building with anti-grafitti coating. We've added cameras, armed our staff with pepper spray, and stopped running our mobile clinic because of threats of violence.
Dr. Colleen McNicholas: My name is Dr. Colleen McNicholas, and I use she/her pronouns.
[where did these idiots go to school?]
The pro-death 'doctor' [McNicholas] testifying, is a radical activist. She is wearing a 'bans off our bodies' pin, and her shirt appears to say 'Abortion is Health Care'.
"Abortion is normal. It is an act of love, and it is fundamentally health care."
Bridges is actually wearing a mask while she answers Durbin's question. She did not have it on when reading her opening remarks.
Lt. Governor Stratton: The abortion bans, and other restrictions, also will have a disproportionate impact on…our LGBTQ+ community.
Denise Harle: The current, so-called 'Women's Health Protection Act', which has a nice name, but if you read it, is actually an abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy, bill…would allow a baby to be dismembered, torn apart limb from limb, just before entering the birth canal, for any reason whatsoever, or no reason at all.
This is the monster testifying today:
"A traveling abortionist, McNicholas works at four abortion facilities in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. She estimated she travels about 400 miles per week between the abortion facilities. Asked if she gets tired of traveling, she replied, “Sometimes physically tired, not tired of the mission of what I’m doing.” What she is doing is aborting what easily could be hundreds of unborn babies every week. During the interview, McNicholas was on her way from St. Louis to Oklahoma City. She said her schedule was full, with almost 60 abortion patients to see in one day."
https://www.lifenews.com/2018/10/03/abortionist-travels-400-miles-every-week-to-do-abortions-kills-60-babies-a-day/
Khiara Bridges: Forced birth is an act of violence.
Klobuchar: This ruling [Dobbs] means that…women receive different treatment under the law than men.
Pardoning Hunter would be the perfect excuse for Biden to resign.
Senator Lee: The cause of saying that it's okay, in fact that it's protected by the Constitution, to exterminate, to extinguish an unborn human life, makes me wonder whether those making those spurious arguments are simply afraid of American Republican Democracy.
Denise Harle: In 1973, forty-six states completely protected life with extremely limited exceptions, and Roe overturned that. So even that recently, that's what the American people wanted.
Senator Cruz [quoting Chairman Durbin, 1989]: "I believe we should end abortion on demand…I continue to believe the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs Wade should be reversed."
Lt. Governor Stratton: It is cruel to deny that access to abortion is actually what is liberating for black women.
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: The higher rates of unintended pregnancy that lead to higher abortion rates among black people, is a result of structural racism, systemic racism.
Cornyn: Does a baby that is born have value?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: Yes. [after long pause]
Cornyn: Do you think a baby that is not yet born has value?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: I believe that a person with the capacity for pregnancy has value, they have intelligence…
Cornyn: I'm talking about the baby.
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: And I'm talking about the person with the capacity for pregnancy.
Cornyn: You're not answering the question.
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: I'm answering a more interesting question to me.
Cornyn: The day before the mother delivers…does that baby have value?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: A person with the capacity for pregnancy has value, they should have the ability to control what happens to their lives.
Lt. Governor Stratton refused to admit that she is an advocate for abortion, at any time during pregnancy, for any reason.
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: There are also transmen who are capably of pregnancy, as well as non-binary people that are capably of pregnancy.
Hawley: So this isn't really a women's rights issue…your view is that the core of this right then is about what?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up transpeople to violence for not recognizing that.
Hawley: You're saying I'm opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks that can have pregnancies?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: One out of five transgender persons have attempted suicide.
Hawley: Because of my line of questioning? We can't talk about it?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: Denying transpeople exist, and pretending to know they exist…
Hawley: I'm denying transpeople exist by asking if you are talking about women having pregnancies?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: Do you believe men can get pregnant?
Hawley: No, I don''t think men can get pregnant.
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: So you are denying transpeople exist!
Hawley: And that leads to violence? Is this how you run your classroom? Are students allowed to question you, or are they also treated like this, that they are opening up people to violence by questioning?
'Professor' Khiara Bridges: You should join. You might learn a lot.
Blumenthal encouraging Biden to declare a national emergency over abortion:
"It's every bit as dire as the opioid epidemic and COVID crisis."
Lt. Governor Stratton: This administration must also challenge the Roe decision through the Department of Justice guidance and protections, and as much administrative action as possible.