Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she’s “extremely concerned” that recent abortion bans could overturn Roe v. Wade: “They’re taking us backwards... This was a movement [Trump] started and that’s why this 2020 election is so important.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota, said she was “extremely concerned” that Roe vs. Wade was at risk of being overturned by recent laws passed to challenge and overturn the Supreme Court precedent on ABC’s “The View” Friday morning.
The ban makes it a felony for doctors in the state to perform abortions in all cases, with the only exception being when the life of the mother is threatened. It does not include exceptions in cases of rape or incest. In recent days, Klobuchar has been outspoken on the new abortion laws in Georgia, Alabama and Missouri, all of which are some of the most restrictive in the nation and passed within a few days of each other, calling them a “coordinated attack on women’s health care” and an “attempt to turn back the clock.”
“They think, oh, maybe you're not going to do the job, put you into a box of what they think you're going to be, and I think every woman in this audience right now and out there watching knows what it's like to be underestimated,” Klobuchar said.
Klobuchar has not called for the House to call for impeachment proceedings to begin, as Democratic candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California, but said Friday “it’s not off the table at all.”
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