Rep. Rashida Tlaib dusted off one of her old insults for anti-abortion activists in response to their stances on reproductive rights.
The Michigan Democrat said in front of the Supreme Court Wednesday that anti-abortion activists are “obsessed” with women’s bodies, and her answer to them was telling them to not want to have sex.
“This past year, I realized, my, my, my are they obsessed with our bodies, how we talk, how we look, what we stand for. I mean, this type of policing of our bodies is so interconnected to all the social justice movements all around the country,” she said.
Tlaib continued, “You know, I, in the Michigan legislature for six years, used to say to people, ‘Yo, yo, you know what, you’re so freakin’ obsessed with what I decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn’t even want to have sex with me! Or with you! Or with any woman!'”
The freshman congresswoman made the comments at the same rally in which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made threatening remarks towards Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful actions,” Schumer said.
The New York Democrat sparked outrage from many for the comments, including from President Trump and even Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts made a rare rebuke of Schumer’s comments in a statement Wednesday.
“Sen. Schumer referred to two members of the court by name,” the chief justice’s statement read. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”
Schumer on Thursday, walked back his remarks, saying, “I shouldn’t have used those words.”
