Whoopi Goldberg went after Republicans in an impassioned protection of abortion rights on Wednesday.
“The View” co-host weighed in on a federal appeals court docket ruling that docs in Texas hospitals aren’t obligated to offer emergency abortions after the Biden administration, in 2022, cited a 1986 regulation as they provided steerage to hospitals that they “must” present abortions if the mom’s life is in danger.
“So, they’re OK with forced childbirth even if it kills someone, ’cause they’re so pro-life. What about all that?” stated Goldberg, who has beforehand defended abortion rights on this system.
The federal appeals court docket’s choice comes a month after the Texas Supreme Court blocked a decide’s ruling that allowed Kate Cox ― a girl with a probably life-threatening being pregnant ― to get an emergency abortion within the state.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), in a letter despatched to 3 hospitals, threatened to prosecute any docs who helped carry out the abortion for Cox, Reuters reported.
Cox in the end fled Texas to have an emergency abortion.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin referred to as the federal appeals court docket’s ruling “draconian and backwards” whereas co-host Sunny Hostin predicted the choice would make its solution to greater courts.
“And I am not a proponent of abortion, but they got this wrong,” Hostin stated.
Goldberg later made a plea for abortion rights as she referred to Cox’s life being “in danger” on account of the post-Roe rulings on abortions in Texas.
“For me, it feels like this is just a power play. You want to make sure that you have control over somebody’s body, whether it kills ’em or not. And you don’t care whether it kills ’em. You don’t care that you are tearing this woman up,” Goldberg stated. “She didn’t want to have an abortion. She wanted a baby, the baby is not viable. She doesn’t want to go through this. And yet you are sitting there, allowing this torture to happen. That’s what’s wrong ― is you are torturing someone and you know it. Shame on you.”
H/T: Mediaite
