MSNBC Suggests Pro-Life Laws Violate The First Amendment

Alex Christy | June 13, 2024
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In a bit of legal analysis better suited for The View, MSNBC’s Alex Witt suggested on Thursday that pro-life laws violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause as she guest hosted Thursday’s edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports.

Witt went all in on abortion activism as she issued more of a statement with a question mark thrown in at the end than a genuine question to New York Magazine senior writer Sarah Jones, “Sarah, the New York Times reports that 171,000 patients traveled for abortion care last year. They went from states that have bans in place. I mean, what an economic cost to women, many of whom may not have the means to afford it, in addition to the health and the mental strain they are facing. Right?”

Jones wholeheartedly agreed, “It's an extreme burden, especially on low-income women. We’ve known this for a long time. It just hasn't mattered to the anti-abortion movement whatsoever, which claims that it is for women, that it can balance the rights of the fetus with the rights of the woman and we’ve seen in practice that that's just not true. We can see it in the burden placed on these women who are traveling such extreme distances just to access a basic legal right.”

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