Symone Sanders: Folks Should Talk About Potential Overturning of Roe v. Wade as ‘Criminalization of Women’

‘This is extreme and crazy and I think that’s how people should talk about it’

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SANDERS: “I think — I think definitely, it could be. I think we heard a little glimpse of that from the President this week. He was asked again, I do believe in the last 24, 48 hours, about particularly the leak. And he talked about the fact that this is more than just abortion. This is about a right to privacy. I’ve heard a number of other Democrats describe this vote as a — this potential overturning as a gateway drug to other assaults on other rights. And so I do think that that would be a persuasive thing for the midterm elections. But I also think, Mika, that folks should talk about this as the criminalization of women, criminalization of abortion —“

BRZEZINSKI: “Yes.”

SANDERS: “— criminalization of those who aid women in getting the health care that they need, if that health care is an abortion.”

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