Dem Rep Accuses Chip Roy of Being ‘Paternalistic’ During Hearing on Texas Abortion Law
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) fired back at Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) during a hearing on Texas’s abortion law, accusing him of being “paternalistic.” During a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Roy argued …
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) fired back at Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) during a hearing on Texas’s Abortion law, accusing him of being “paternalistic.”
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Roy argued, “One word that has been consistently missing from colleagues on the other side of the aisle today is ‘heartbeat.'”
He added, “Because my colleagues on the other side of the aisle don’t want to start with the concept of heartbeat.”
Roy suggested Democrats are “starting from the premise not from the starting place of life and trying to defend life, but from the standpoint of law with respect to our current Abortion law.”
He claimed his Democratic colleagues do not want to talk about the bill “because they know it undermines their position.”
Jayapal acknowledged Roy is “right” to say Democrats have a different starting place.
She explained, “I start with the Constitution. I start with the Constitution and I start with the constitutional right that I have to make choices about my own body. And I also am very offended by the idea that anybody on your side would call me a murderer for making a choice about my health and my body that you cannot even begin to understand or know what I was dealing with.”