“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg questioned just how far back Republicans are willing to go in history following the reinstatement of an abortion ban in Arizona that dates back to 1864.
The timeline was not lost on Goldberg, who opined that is people would support this, they may also support bringing back slavery, which was abolished in 1865.
The Arizona Supreme Court, in reinstating the ban, did not provide any exceptions other than to save the life of the mother, Mediaite reported.
Goldberg’s co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, the panel’s sole Republican, said this was a “big win” for Democrats, per the outlet. She also said Republicans seem to be “out of step” on the abortion issue.
“A lot of elected Republicans are completely out of step with the sentiment of the country because we’ve seen in Kansas, a very red state, Ohio, and Kentucky that Republicans turned out to protect access to abortion so this is a big win for Democrats,” Griffin said.
Golberg continued the conversation that saying Republicans are out of step is putting it mildly.
“Take a look at the things that they’re rolling back. Remember I said ages ago, you know, in their minds they want to bring slavery back,” she said. “They’re OK with it because you see things change — now one of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better. You don’t generally fight to make stuff worse.”
And if they are willing to enforce this ban, what’s next, Goldberg asked.
“To me, if you’re OK rolling that back, when things were not even a state, when we had no say…so how’s that going to roll? How’s that going to roll? What’s the next thing?” she said.
“Because you know with all of this comes birth control, with all of this comes everything that you need as a woman to have had put in place to make sure that we are doing better than we were before.”
