.SenWarren has been vocal about her anger with the GOP, but what about her own party? She spoke with TheSamhita about what the Senate plans to do should Roe v. Wade be overturned and why we have to keep fighting even when winning feels impossible
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Senator Elizabeth Warren has a lot to be angry about. A month that started with a shocking leak that has all but confirmed a long-standing fear — that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade — has also given us at least a dozen mass shootings, including last week’s in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 elementary-school students and two teachers.
Warren: I am angrier than I was back then and more determined than ever to channel that anger into making real change. The reason I’m angrier is that Mitch McConnell wasn’t content to let the Supreme Court signal that it was about to overturn Roe v. Wade. He said that if Republicans get the majority, they will consider repealing access to abortion everywhere in America. That means there will be no one and no place that is safe. There will be no havens to flee to.
Warren: Right, absolutely. Alito claims that it’s okay to overturn Roe because there’s not a long history of support for abortion rights. He’s wrong on that, but think about how that analysis applies elsewhere. There’s not a long history protecting interracial marriage or equal marriage or even access to contraception.
Over in the Senate, we will continue with hearings and votes, I hope, in order to make clear to the American people exactly how extreme the Republican leadership in the Senate has become. I should make a point that we kind of skipped over in this when we were talking about the Supreme Court. It’s crucial to remember that the Court does not get the last word on Roe unless we give it to them. Congress can decide who has access to abortion everywhere in this country.
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