“I’m here because I’m tired of fighting the same fight as my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents,” said Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan. “I will not leave that fight to my children, and I am here because Donald Trump is responsible for the fall of [Roe v. Wade] and the chaos that has come afterward.”
“The issue of our rights is an issue that matters, it’s an issue that we vote on, it’s an issue that for some, it is an issue of life or death,” said Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. “And we will make it decisive to demonstrate that we will vote and we will win and we will protect our rights and we will protect women.”
In Dumfries:
“This issue wins everywhere, because people understand they want to make that choice,” said House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark. “They want to be able to make that [choice] with their medical team, not with Donald Trump and JD Vance. We don’t trust JD Vance to order donuts, we certainly don’t trust him to tell us if, when, and how to have a family and children.”
“I have a 14-year-old daughter, and she enjoys fewer rights than her mother did, and that women have enjoyed for generations before Dobbs. There was a constitutional right to reproductive health care that right is now gone,” said Eugene Vindman, VA-07 Democratic nominee. “What can be more extreme than taking away people’s constitutional rights? […] That’s what MAGA Republicans want to do.”
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