<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656084686284,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-c093-df17-a7ff-cedfaaf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656084686284,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-c093-df17-a7ff-cedfaaf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_56084672", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1039680"} }); ","_id":"00000181-9656-d66a-a7c3-d77fd3290000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday striking down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, saying she was “personally overwhelmed” by the decision.
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“There’s no point in saying good morning because it certainly is not,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol on Friday less than an hour after the ruling was issued.
Calling the decision “disgraceful,” Pelosi said the “Republican-controlled Supreme Court achieved their dark, extreme goal.”
“Radical Republicans are charging ahead with their crusade to criminalize health freedom in the Congress. Be aware of this: The Republicans are planning a nationwide abortion ban,” Pelosi said. “They cannot be allowed to have a majority in the Congress to do that.”
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In its suit, Mississippi directly asked the high court to reconsider its landmark rulings in both Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which legalized abortion nationwide. In its Dobbs ruling, the court found that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, overturning its prior precedent. The ruling makes the legality of abortion a matter for individual states, meaning abortion will be legal or illegal under state rather than federal law.
Even though Democrats currently control the White House and the House of Representatives, they failed to pass sweeping abortion-rights legislation, where it fell short in the Senate after failing to clear the upper chamber’s 60-vote filibuster, leaving Democrats little if any path to a legislative response to the ruling.
Pelosi appeared to acknowledge this when she cast the decision as something voters will consider in November.
“There is a plan, and that plan is to win the election,” the House speaker said.
Pelosi said in November that “hopefully” Democrats will get “two more senators so that we can change the obstacles to passing laws for the good of our country,” a thinly veiled reference to Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to removing the filibuster.
Pelosi said before the ruling she was pleased that the House would pass a bipartisan gun violence prevention bill the Senate approved Thursday evening.
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“We congratulate the Senate on the work that they have done and the timeliness of it to be passed in the Senate in the strong bipartisan way on a day when the court made such a dangerous, dangerous decision,” she said.
