<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656446301335,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b6-de22-a173-2ffe05de0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656446301335,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b6-de22-a173-2ffe05de0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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And so members of Congress are working to protect abortion rights, starting with a plan to offer abortion clinics in national parks.
Yes, you read that right. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are lobbying for the Biden administration to set up “emergency abortion clinics” on federal lands.
“Make abortion as available as possible with the tools he has, including medication abortion, including using federal lands as a place where abortions can occur,” Warren told ABC News.
Ocasio-Cortez ironically says that such federal clinics represent “the babiest of baby steps” for abortion services.
What Warren and Ocasio-Cortez don’t realize is that this won’t pass, simply because it is a terrible idea. It will have the opposite of its intended purpose.
In an interview with CNN, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “I think that what is most important right now is that we ensure that the restrictions the states are trying to put up that would prohibit a woman from exercising what we still maintain is her right, that we do everything that we can to empower women to not only seek but receive the care where it is available.”
But Democrats’ creativity has gone too far out of the box.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday said there could be negative ramifications from offering these abortion services on federal lands.
“With this proposal — we understand the proposal is well-intentioned, but here’s the thing: It could actually put women and providers at risk,” she said.
Esther Wickham is a summer 2022 Washington Examiner fellow.
