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A super-lib explains how the dems couldn't codify Roe for FIFTY fucking years. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In a speech Obama gave to Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, the then-presidential candidate said, “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.” He referenced it again in 2008, on the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Obama:

Now, the Freedom of Choice Act is not highest legislative priority. I believe that women should have the right to choose. But I think that the most important thing we can do to tamp down some of the anger surrounding this issue is to focus on those areas that we can agree on. And that’s — that’s where I’m going to focus.

most people have probably read the first part of his response but the second bit is extra fucked