Ilhan Omar Suggests Protesting Islamic Law Is the Same as Fighting for the Right to an Abortion

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) suggested women in the United States fighting for 🏥Abortion rights are facing similar challenges to those protesting Islamic law.

Omar made the comments during a campaign rally to re-elect Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison last week.

“As we watch the brave, incredible young girls in schools in Iran who are standing up to teachers, young women in buses and in public streets who are saying ‘no’ to the morality police – because there is no morality in trying to oppress women,” Omar said.

She continued, “There is no morality in forcing people to participate in a religion they don’t want to. And there is no morality in believing government’s our God.”

Omar argued that “we know the women in Iran are bravely chanting, ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ for their rights, for their right to bodily autonomy.”

She went on, “So, here in the United States, when the right extremists are challenging our bodily autonomy, we have to stand up and say, ‘Women, Life, Freedom.’”

Watch Omar’s comments below:

Over the summer, Omar was arrested during a protest outside the Supreme Court following its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, as IJR reported.