{"id":1470688,"date":"2022-05-10T17:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470688"},"modified":"2022-05-10T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T21:44:42","slug":"tim-scott-shuts-down-biden-official-with-stunning-rebuke-when-she-suggests-black-women-need-abortions-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-shuts-down-biden-official-with-stunning-rebuke-when-she-suggests-black-women-need-abortions-to-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott Shuts Down Biden Official With Stunning Rebuke When She Suggests Black Women Need Abortions To Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-scott-shuts-down-biden-official-with-stunning-rebuke-when-she-suggests-black-women-need-abortions-to-succeed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470688&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-4.35.37-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested Tuesday to a black senator raised by a single mother that black women need abortions in order to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are talking about is whether or not women will have the ability to regulate their reproductive situation in ways that will enable them to plan lives that are fulfilling and satisfying for them,\u201d Yellen said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden official said that one aspect of a satisfying life is to \u201cfeel that you have the financial resources to raise a child, that the children you bring into the world are wanted, and that you have the ability to take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many cases,\u201d she continued, \u201cabortions are teenage women, particularly low income, and often black, who aren\u2019t in a position to be able to care for children, have unexpected pregnancies, and it deprives them of the ability, often, to continue their education to later participate in the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) finally interrupted Yellen to tell her, \u201cI\u2019ll just simply say that, as a guy raised by a black woman in abject poverty, I am thankful to be here as a United States senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And here&#8217;s Yellen explaining to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorTimScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorTimScott<\/a>, the black son of a single mother who grew up in poverty, that it&#8217;s especially important for black women to have abortion access because they are often poor.<\/p>\n<p>Scott responds powerfully: &#8220;I am thankful to be here as a U.S. Senator&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ab3Miw7gfW\">pic.twitter.com\/Ab3Miw7gfW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dylan Housman (@Dylan_Housman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dylan_Housman\/status\/1524113377706053632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The exchange comes as the nation grapples with news that <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> may be soon overturned following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion last week.<\/p>\n<p>While pro-abortion activists often make the argument that abortion is a vital stepping stone for minority and impoverished women, pro-life activists argue that it is insulting to suggest that black women need to abort their babies in order to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think to myself, had it not been for her sacrifice, her perseverance, her resilience, I would not be where I am today,\u201d Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scott.senate.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/senator-tim-scott-honors-mom-sc-trailblazers-for-womens-history-month\">said last year of his mother,<\/a>\u00a0who raised her two sons on her own while she worked as a nurse\u2019s assistant. \u201cFor me, there has been no better witness, no more powerful force than Frances Scott.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what you had inside of you and what you were capable of doing, so, therefore, I couldn\u2019t give up,\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0the senator\u2019s mother told him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested Tuesday to a black senator raised by a single mother that black women need abortions in order to succeed.\u201cWhat we are talking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1482435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}