Sen. Elizabeth Warren is best known for her passionate positions on economic issues, but at a Wednesday night MSNBC town hall, she showed that she can and does bring the same passion to reproductive freedom—and highlighted the close connection between women’s issues and economic issues. When host Chris Hayes asked Warren if she thought former Vice President Joe Biden’s embrace of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion services except in cases of rape, incest, or a danger to the life of the mother, was wrong, she gave an unequivocal “yes.”
“I’ve lived in an America where abortions were illegal. And understand this: Women still got abortions,” Warren said (watch the video below). “Now, some got lucky on what happened, and some got really unlucky on what happened. But the bottom line is they were there.
“Under the Hyde Amendment,” she continued, “under every one of these efforts to try to chip away or to push back or to get rid of Roe v. Wade, understand this, women of means will still have access to abortions. Who won’t will be poor women, will be working women, will be women who can’t afford to take off three days from work, will be very young women, will be women who’ve been raped, will be women who have been molested by someone in their own family. We do not pass laws that take away that freedom from the women who are most vulnerable.”
Exactly that. There’s just not much more to say.