Weekend Quotables
In the nation’s capital, protesters marched to the Supreme Court in the rain while chanting “We will not go back”.
Rachel Carmona, executive director of the Women’s March
“We have to see an end to the attacks on our bodies. You can expect for women to be completely ungovernable until this government starts to work for us.”
Barbara Lee, a Democratic member of Congress
Lee told the Los Angeles crowd of her own pre-Roe abortion, which happened when she was a teenager. “We’re here today to tell these radical extremists that if you criminalize people for having an abortion, if you make abortion illegal, if you take away our rights to make our personal decisions about our bodies, we will see you at the ballot box in November.” — Guardian
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts
Rape victims should be forced to have the rapist’s baby.
CNN's Dana Bash: "Do you think that the state of Nebraska should require a young girl who was raped to carry that pregnancy to term?"
Ricketts: "Those are babies, too."
Bash: "Including in the case of rape or incest?"
Ricketts: "Yes, they’re still babies." — Rolling Stone
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt
Stitt Blames “God” for his own misogyny.
"Your law... has no exemptions for rape... What do you say to a woman who finds herself in that situation?"
@GovStitt: "Super compassionate... But you have to choose: That is a human being inside the womb ... God has a special plan for every single life." — Fox News Sunday
McDonald’s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski
“It’s impossible to predict what the future may hold, but I choose to end my message with the same spirit that brought McDonald’s to Russia in the first place: hope,” he wrote in his employee letter. “Thus, let us not end by saying, ‘goodbye.’ Instead, let us say as they do in Russian: Until we meet again.” — AP
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