Ayanna Pressley

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333 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard Jun 2025

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that insurers in that marketplace, if you're seeking abortion care, they will deny you.
So what does that mean?
That means even in places like the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which I represent, that work hard to protect reproductive freedom and health care access and even to expand it.
But if your health care is through the Affordable Care Act and you are seeking abortion care, which is health care, because if you have an ectopic pregnancy, abortion care is how you manage that.
If you have a miscarriage, abortion care is how you manage that.
It's the culture of, of, um, political retribution and grievance that he has created where people, again, they've become more focused on, sorry, I have a standing sitting desk here.
That's a moving, um, where people are more focused on, um,
fealty and loyalty to Donald Trump and loyalty to the people that elected them.
And that's why we have to keep the pressure up.
Like I said, a dictator wants you to see their vision as an inevitability.
And history has shown us that appeasement in the wake of fascism or tyranny never works.
So we have to keep the pressure up and force your elected officials to listen to you and to see you.
They're just trying to get this done.
They think if they do this heading into July 4th, that we will not pay attention to exactly all the harm that is coming our way, this tsunami of hurt, because we'll be too busy, you know, grilling and at the cookout and doing the electric slide.
That's why they're moving this way.
But what they need to do is go back to their districts and listen to their constituents.
Yeah, I don't.
I mean, look, they're the Republican caucus.
So you either have people that are saying they won't vote for it because it doesn't cause enough harm.
Imagine that.
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