Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Teaches GOP Basic Female Anatomy During Abortion Hearing
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"Once again we’re in a room of legislators who are attempting to legislate reproductive systems that they know nothing about," the congresswoman said.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) stepped in to correct Republican legislators who argued Thursday that Texas’ new, highly restrictive abortion law doesn’t force women who have been raped to carry their pregnancies to term because they would know they’re pregnant before the law’s six-week cutoff.
The argument belies a fundamental misunderstanding about female anatomy — and the trauma of sexual assault. As she has had to do many times in the past, Ocasio-Cortez addressed the ignorance of her peers head-on.
“Once again we’re in a room of legislators who are attempting to legislate reproductive systems that they know nothing about,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a congressional hearing about the new law.
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