(EFE).- Police arrested several Democratic congresswomen, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, on Tuesday during a protest in favor of the right to abortion in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC.
As EFE learned, Ocasio-Cortez was handcuffed and arrested by Capitol Police officers for blocking traffic in front of the high court building.
Lol AOC pretending she got cuffed. So brave. pic.twitter.com/epHDd4E8S5
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) July 19, 2022
US media outlets reported that among the other Democratic legislators present at the protest were Nydia Velazquez, Carolyn Maloney and Jackie Speier, all representing districts in New York, and Bonnie Watson Coleman (New Jersey).
The Capitol Police tweeted that 16 members of Congress were arrested.
Add this to the long list of dumb things elected Democrats would rather do than try to legislate. https://t.co/JHKs09arzj
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) July 19, 2022
Among those detained and arrested in addition to Ocasio-Cortez were Coleman, Speier and Maloney, but also Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Andy Levin (Michigan), Cori Bush (Missouri), Alma Adams (North Carolina) and Veronica Escobar (Texas).
JUST IN: Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and other House Democrats arrested in abortion rights protest at the Supreme Court. https://t.co/N5z1UTto8x pic.twitter.com/7MMJk2a7Rj
— ABC News (@ABC) July 19, 2022
Last Friday, the US House of Representatives, where Democrats hold a thin majority, approved two bills protecting nationwide access to abortion, although the measures have little chance of being passed in the Senate, where progressives arguably only control 50 of the 100 seats.
The Supreme Court will not stop us. Even though they arrested us, we won’t stop our organizing, agitating, and legislating for justice.
We got us. pic.twitter.com/wDHzptEYiQ
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 19, 2022
One of the initiatives supports access to the means for voluntarily interrupting an unwanted pregnancy by enshrining that right as federal law and the other protects travel to US states where abortion is legal to undergo the procedure.
In late June, the heavily conservative Supreme Court overturned the legal protections for abortion, revoking in a 6-3 decision the 1973 ruling in the controversial Roe v. Wade case.
A number of states controlled by Republicans have restricted or completely banned abortion since the high court ruling.
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The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
These disgraceful, self-righteous Democrat Buboes have no respect for anyone or anything if they do not agree it.
A woman’s body ends at the end of the baby’s umbilical cord and the baby’s body begins.
It is NOT YOUR BODY THAT YOU ARE KILLING, it is the baby’s body!!
that last picture of the squad just proves my point that they should have been aborted and i still think it needs to happen.
I am down with that.
Handcuffs would be good. A muzzle and a straightjacker even better.
Having been aborted from the protest, AOC should have acquired some sympathy for innocent babies in the womb who don’t go out gently escorted in imaginary handcuffs, but scraped into body parts destined for sale, and the rest vacuumed into the waste basket. AOC can no longer sell he own body parts having sold out to the devil who owns her lock stock and beer barrel. What is it about these pathological killers of babies, who having killed their own children in the womb, have this need to publicly protest to get with others who also seek to hide within the herd, thinking the acceptance of others who have taken innocent life gives them safety in numbers. They forget that we all come into this world alone, and if not killed when in a state of innocence, will live long enough to leave this world alone, and it is better to meet the maker in a posture of innocence than guilt. In AOC’s herd, only the socially fit and the socially indoctrinated who can vote the party line are worthy to survive. AOC’s irresistible hand wave while pretending to be handcuffed, reminds me of the joke about the one-armed Polack who waved back and then fell out of tree. AOC fell out of the American tree of liberty decades ago.
PITY they were just fake cuffs, and NOT REAL ONES.
SMH. They weren’t arrested, they were told to go back to the Capitol Building. Some of the minions at the protest were arrested and will only get a fine.
I needed a good laugh so thank you aoc.
Can you get any more disgusting than that? To fake being handcuffed is reprehensible. But of course she and the squad are all pieces of shoot.
Gutfeld ripped into her tonight for that. Pity she can’t be charged with a REAL crime.