Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, sounded the alarm in an interview Sunday with 60 Minutes, warning voters that if they put Donald Trump back in the White House and elect Republicans, abortion rights won’t be the only freedoms that could be eliminated.
“[Abortion rights are] going to be an incredibly significant issue,” Jeffries told Nora O’Donnell and the CBS news show. “Because on its own, it’s about freedom. And the extreme MAGA Republicans have set in motion the erosion of reproductive freedom. We’re going to fight for it with every thing that we’ve got at our disposal.
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“If Roe v. Wade can fall, anything can fall. Social Security can fall. Medicare can fall. Voting rights can fall. And, God help us all, but democracy itself can fall.
“If Roe v. Wade can fall, then anything can fall. Every single thing that we care about is on the ballot in November.”
The Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion, has resulted in sweeping restrictions to abortion access in many states.
But as red-state legislatures have taken the ruling and evoked even more draconian laws, the issue has carried Democrats to victories in federal and statewide elections in the ensuing two years.
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