Sen. Cory Booker took an absolutely stunning and brave stance at the CNN Democratic debate in Ohio on Tuesday night: Women, he said, are people.
Booker’s bold new stance emerged after Kamala Harris took an unrelated question and decided to grandstand about abortion for applause. She pivoted and said “Women will die because these Republican legislators in various states are telling women what to do with their bodies.”
It’s a completely disingenuous framing of the abortion debate, of course — one which falls to fear mongering and straw manning pro-life viewpoints rather than make a good faith argument. But what followed was even more atrocious: Cory Booker tried to follow up Harris’ act, and took it took cringe-worthy levels of pandering.
Cory Booker on access to reproductive health care: “Women should not be the only ones taking up this cause and this fight. It’s not just because women are our daughters and our friends and our wives. It’s because women are people.” https://t.co/vaz70YjTk0 #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/dXkZpDSWea
— ABC News (@ABC) October 16, 2019
“Women should not be the only ones taking up this cause and this fight. It’s not just because women are our daughters and our friends and our wives. It’s because women are people.” Booker said.
Booker continued, “This may be controversial but I’m gonna say it anyway: women are people.”
Wow. In just three words, Cory Booker settled the long-standing debate over the personhood of women that literally no one was having. Conservative women were quick to give Booker a piece over their minds on Twitter:
Today I learned women are people. #DemDebate
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) October 16, 2019
“Women are people.” Why does Cory Booker have to get so controversial? #DemDebate
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 16, 2019
He deserved it. Maybe next time, Booker can make the case for his campaign without cringe-worthy pandering.
Nah, probably not.
