{"id":729953,"date":"2021-09-08T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=729953"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:35:17","slug":"ocasio-cortez-confusingly-refers-to-women-people-who-do-give-birth-and-any-menstruating-person-all-in-less-than-two-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-confusingly-refers-to-women-people-who-do-give-birth-and-any-menstruating-person-all-in-less-than-two-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Confusingly Refers To \u2018Women,\u2019 \u2018People Who Do Give Birth\u2019 And \u2018Any Menstruating Person\u2019 All In Less Than Two Minutes"},"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\">40<\/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%2Focasio-cortez-confusingly-refers-to-women-people-who-do-give-birth-and-any-menstruating-person-all-in-less-than-two-minutes%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=729953&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Untitled-design-1-1-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to women, \u201cpeople who do give birth,\u201d and \u201cany menstruating person\u201d in less than two minutes as she described how Texas\u2019 pro-life Heartbeat Act will affect women.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat reacted with outrage to Texas\u2019 new law, which bans abortions after a baby\u2019s heartbeat can be detected. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/walt-heyer-lgbtQ-transgender\/\">(RELATED: Liberal Activists Rebrand Sex Changes As \u2018Gender-Affirming Medical Care\u2019 To Bully State Officials Into Allowing The Mutilation Of Children)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talk about the law that was passed in Texas, we know that anti-choice bills are not about being pro-life,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause if they were about being pro life, then the Republican Party would support, frankly, an agenda that helps guaranteed health care, that helps ensure that people who do give birth that don\u2019t have the resources to care for a child, can have that care for a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we know that none of this is about life,\u201d she continued. \u201cNone of this is about supporting life. What this is about is controlling women\u2019s bodies and controlling people who are not cisgender men. This is about making sure that someone like me, as a woman or any menstruating person in this country, cannot make decisions over their own body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez added that \u201cpeople like\u201d Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell \u201cwant to have more control over a woman\u2019s body than that woman or that person has over themselves.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/new-york-times-life-conception-joe-biden-roe-v-wade\/\">(RELATED: New York Times Story On Biden\u2019s $3.5 Trillion Budget Repeatedly Refers To Life Beginning At Conception)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat that shares with rape culture is that sexual assault is about the abusive power and sexual assault is about asserting control over another person,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd the ease with which these men seek to do that to other people is atrocious. It is morally reprehensible and they don\u2019t \u2014 they cannot even begin to understand the agonizing decisions that people have to make including in cases of miscarriage, rape and incest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/21a24_8759.pdf#page=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/21a24_8759.pdf%23page%3D7&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630972738417000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRbNifnz0N4EuBWREFYc9PVRCwQQ\">ruled 5-4<\/a> last week to deny abortion providers\u2019 requests to block Texas\u2019 new law. President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/joe-biden-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-rule-of-law\/\">said<\/a> the court\u2019s decision \u201cinsults the rule of law\u201d and directed White House officials to launch a \u201cwhole-of-government effort to respond to this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/06\/justice-department-abortion-clinics-texas\/\">announced Monday<\/a> that it will \u201cprovide support from federal law enforcement\u201d to any Texas abortion clinic facing an \u201cattack.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/joe-biden-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-rule-of-law\/\">(RELATED: Biden: Supreme Court Abortion Ruling \u2018Insults The Rule Of Law\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/attorney-lawsuit-texas-abortion-law\/\">The Heartbeat Act<\/a> has particularly angered abortion proponents as it allows \u201cany person\u201d to sue doctors, abortion clinics, or anyone who \u201cknowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.\u201d Those who sue over an abortion may be awarded $10,000 \u201cfor each abortion\u201d the defendant performed, induced, aided, or abetted in violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to women, \u201cpeople who do give birth,\u201d and \u201cany menstruating person\u201d in less than two minutes as she described how Texas\u2019 pro-life Heartbeat Act will affect &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729953","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\/729953","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}