'Freedom Will Be On The Ballot': Hakeem Jeffries Blasts Trump Over Attack On Reproductive Rights

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a press briefing on Wednesday where he spoke about abortion.

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00:00 Good afternoon everyone.

00:06 Freedom is under assault here in America and throughout the world.

00:13 House Democrats, we believe in a woman's freedom to make her own reproductive health care decisions.

00:23 And we strongly oppose any effort by extreme MAGA Republicans to criminalize abortion care,

00:32 impose a nationwide ban, target women and physicians and medical professionals across

00:43 the country, and try to impose government-mandated pregnancies even in instances where there

00:55 has been rape or incest.

01:00 Freedom is under assault by the extreme MAGA Republicans and Ground Zero at the moment

01:08 is in Florida where there is a ban that will impact millions of women in the state of Florida

01:20 and throughout the deep south.

01:25 Because up until this point, Florida was perhaps the only state in the southeastern part of

01:33 the country where a woman could seek reproductive health care.

01:40 Freedom is under assault.

01:43 House Democrats are defending it.

01:47 Extreme MAGA Republicans are determined to undermine it.

01:53 And Donald Trump and everyone who blindly follows him are responsible for what has taken

02:03 place in this country as a result of the fall of Roe v. Wade and the attacks on freedom

02:11 that have been underway ever since.

02:17 Freedom under assault in America, freedom under assault across the world, particularly

02:26 in Ukraine, which is why it was so critically important that we worked together to get the

02:36 national security legislation that was bipartisan and comprehensive over the finish line and

02:44 defeated the pro-Putin Republicans who were determined to undermine America's national

02:50 security, undermine freedom and democracy throughout the world, and undermine American

03:02 leadership in a way that would have hurt the safety and security of the American people,

03:11 perhaps for decades to come, if Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression was allowed to prevail.

03:20 Freedom under assault in America, freedom under assault throughout the world, freedom

03:28 will be on the ballot in November.

'Freedom Will Be On The Ballot': Hakeem Jeffries Blasts Trump Over Attack On Reproductive Rights

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