"It's a slap in the face to women"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called Friday's Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade "a slap in the face to women."

"It's such a contradiction. Yesterday, to say the states cannot make laws governing the constitutional right to bear arms. And today, they're saying the exact reverse, that the states can overturn a constitutional right — for 50 years a constitutional right for women having the right to choose," she said.

"The hypocrisy is raging, but the harm is endless. What this means to women is such an insult, it's a slap in the face to women about using their own judgement to make their own decisions about their reproductive freedom." close