{"id":232695,"date":"2020-10-13T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232695"},"modified":"2020-10-13T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:18:05","slug":"cory-booker-roe-reversal-women-planning-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cory-booker-roe-reversal-women-planning-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cory Booker: ‘Roe’ reversal would prevent women from planning for their future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, the Senate held its first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>. While\u00a0recent polling<\/a> has found that nearly half of Americans support Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, several senators present at the hearings\u00a0expressed concern about the possibility that the Court could overturn\u00a0Roe v. Wade,<\/em>\u00a0which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Should this occur, abortion would not immediately become illegal<\/a>. Instead, each U.S. state would pass its own abortion legislation.<\/p>\n

In his opening statement<\/a>, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) argued that Barrett’s confirmation would be a potential threat to Roe<\/em>. \u201cPeople are scared right now for another reason, because they know what a future without the protections of Roe v. Wade<\/em> looks like,\u201d he said. “Because President Trump has explicitly stated that he would only put up Supreme Court nominees that would overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em>. He said it clearly. We should believe him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout Roe v. Wade<\/em>, our country looks like people being denied the ability to make decisions about their own body, not just while they\u2019re pregnant, but being stripped of the right to plan for their futures,\u201d Booker continued. “It looks like women of color, low-income women, and women living in rural areas, who can\u2019t just pack up and leave if abortion is restricted or criminalized where they live. It looks like them being left with no options. It looks like state laws proliferating throughout our country that seek to control and criminalize women. It looks like the government interfering with women making the most personal medical decisions. It looks like a country in which states write laws that could subject women that have miscarriages to investigations to ensure that they didn\u2019t have abortions.”<\/p>\n