Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Two Years since Dobbs - June 24, 2024

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
June 24, 2024— Las Vegas, NV
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This week marks the 2-year anniversary of the catastrophic Dobbs decision. Two years since six conservative justices toppled Roe v. Wade, since our right to choose was taken from us, and pregnant women and people across the country have had their lives at risk.

It's been 2 years since our freedom over our bodies was seized by the most corrupt Supreme Court in American history. And that court itself was appointed by the most corrupt president in American history, Donald Trump. And it is precisely because of Donald Trump and his corrupt court that women and girls and pregnant people have less rights today in 2024 than our parents and grandparents did.

And I have a message for this conservative court and to Donald J. Trump: we do not consent. The women and people of this state do not consent, and the women and people of this country certainly do not consent to Donald Trump, nor this corrupt court that he has enabled. And we are the front line of our democracy, we will have our day, we will write our story, and we will have the right to choose. Not just with our bodies, but at the ballot box too. And the only way that Republicans will get this message is when the people of this country decisively elect majorities in Congress, reelect Jacky Rosen, and again reelect Joe Biden.

This is not a game, Las Vegas. Every single one of us has our story of choice. Of looking at a crossroads and deciding how we want to proceed. Whether it's contraception, IVF, abortion, family planning, or any or none of the above, these are our essential freedoms that unlock agency over our lives; and it is up to us to defend them, to restore them, and to codify them as the law of this land. They have given us no other choice but to win.