AOC Schools GOP Lawmakers On How Periods Work During Hearing “Once again we’re in a room of legislators who are attempting to legislate reproductive systems that they know nothing about.' PREACH IT. aoc
“Once again we’re in a room of legislators who are attempting to legislate reproductive systems that they know nothing about,” Ocasio-Cortez said after Skop said definitively that she thinks, “there’s adequate time in this law for a woman who’s been raped to discover that she’s pregnant, and if she wants to terminate the pregnancy, I think that she has time to do it.
Or is he opposed to that bc it’s a slippery slope of vigilantism where men could be unjustly targeted? 🤔Ocasio-Cortez continued: “Six weeks pregnant—and it’s shameful that this education needs to happen, because this conversation shouldn’t even be held in a legislative body—six weeks pregnant is two weeks late for one’s period.”
She went on to continue to speak out on behalf of rape survivors, which she herself is. “When you are raped, you don’t always know what happened to you,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And I speak about this as a survivor. You are in so much shock at what happened to you, sometimes it takes years to realize what actually went on.”
She went on to educate the room about all the reasons why a person can be late for their period or think they may be pregnant, including a woman’s weight and surviving the trauma of being raped. “I’m two weeks late for my period. And you’re supposed to expect me to know that I’m pregnant?” she said. “Or the stress of a sexual assault — that makes you two weeks late for your period, whether you’re pregnant or not.”"What this is about is controlling women’s bodies, & controlling people who are not cisgender men. This is about making sure that someone like me ..
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