The leaked Supreme Court draft to overturn Roe v. Wade has ignited women's rights supporters.
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After seeing the document Congresswoman Jackie Speier took to Twitter to express her frustration "SCOTUS has become not a judicial deliberative body but a political pawn that is unrecognizable by Themis, the goddess of blind justice," Speier tweeted.
She told KCBS Radio that the Supreme Court has historically been the "body that was above politics" and only looked at the law but now she said it has lost its way and has become "a political institution."
"The Federalist Society is the basis on which any republican president now bows at the altar of, and the Federalists Society is about grooming the most conservative person to be candidates for the supreme court."
If it is overturned, half of the women in the country will not be able to get a safe abortion. Thirteen states already have "trigger laws," she said that are already passed and will "destroy a woman’s right to abortion in their state."
"Over a very short period of time, we are going to see just a situation where women no longer have control over their own bodies they don't have the freedom to make a decision about their own bodies," she explained.
Speier explained that the house has passed the Women's Health Protection Act, which was introduced by California Congresswoman Judy Chu. The problem is the senate needs 60 votes to pass the bill and Speier said there are a couple of Republican members who are pro-choice.
"The irony is that most of our colleagues that fall on this issue are pro-birth but they are not pro-life," she said. "They want these fetuses to be born but then they aren’t going to be there to provide the resources and services to protect them whether it's food, shelter or well-being."
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