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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said the draft Supreme Court opinion that shows a majority of justices favor overturning Roe v. Wade "slapped women in the face." "Here we are on Mother's Day, a week where this court has slapped women in the face in terms of disrespect for their judgment about the size and timing of their families," Pelosi told moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS's "Face the Nation." "So the fact is, let's keep our eye on the ball. The ball is in the court of those justices, one of them at least said over and over again," she added. |
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"This is 50 years of rights in a leaked opinion where Justice Alito is literally not just taking us back to the 1950s, he's taking us back to 1850s. He actually cites the fact that abortion was criminalized back when the 14th Amendment was adopted," Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) told anchor Martha Raddatz on ABC's "This Week." |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C) on Sunday said the 1973 Supreme Court precedent Roe v. Wade "created a constitutional right that didn't exist" when justices ruled Americans have a right to privacy and legalized abortion in the U.S. |
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that she and her colleagues plan to vote this week to codify Roe v. Wade, in response to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn that indicated the court would overturn the landmark ruling. |
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"I think it's inconsistent with what we've been fighting for four decades, which is that we wanted the Roe v. Wade reversed and the authority to return to the states. And so as a matter of principle, that's where it should be," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said. |
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| Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said on Sunday that overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion in the U.S., would be the "correct decision" for the Supreme Court. |
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN), said on Sunday that first lady Jill Biden's visit to Ukraine sends a "strong message of support" amid Russia's ongoing invasion of its neighbor. |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday pushed to label Russia a state sponsor of terrorism and called for the expansion of the western security alliance NATO to deter the Kremlin from future invasions. |
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday said the MAGA wing of the Republican party headed by former President Trump was "hateful and divisive." |
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