(LifeSiteNews) — Last week, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said that as she began to undergo her second abortion at 19 years old, she wanted to stop it, but nurses ignored her saying “no.”
“I remember laying there looking to see if there was someone else in the room that would listen to me,” Bush, a member of the far-left “Squad,” told Margaret Hoover in a PBS interview. “During this time, they put the instrument inside me and started the instrument…I’m saying ‘no,’ but it was too late because you couldn’t stop once it’s started.”
In case you missed it, Rep. @CoriBush said abortionists killed her second baby despite telling them she didn’t want to go through with it. pic.twitter.com/5RG3Wzp54w
— LifeSiteNews (@LifeSite) October 10, 2022
Bush said two years earlier, she had become pregnant after rape and also had an abortion.
“I thought I was ready,” she said about the second abortion. “I lay there and started to think, well, one, I didn’t tell the father that that was about to happen…And I just felt like I needed more time. So, I said, ‘no, you know what, I’m not ready.’ And the nurse…wouldn’t listen to me.”
Bush recounted that the medical staff “continued to pull the instruments” out and “get everything ready.” Meanwhile, Bush protested, they repeatedly told her to “calm down” and that “you’re going to be okay.”
“They absolutely ignored me, even to the point of, you know, like, ‘calm down.’ As if I was the problem.”
“I didn’t understand at that point where…I had a voice.”
Bush told Hoover that she “felt like” the medical staff aired an attitude which told her “you don’t know what you need. You don’t understand. We know better.” She said that she wasn’t listened to because she was “a young black woman.”
The abortion industry has a history of targeting black women and children. U.S. health officials’ history of racist policies and actions towards minority and vulnerable populations is well-documented.
For years, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger has been known as a supporter of eugenics and racism. The organization publicly acknowledged the history with a rise in criticism, and in 2021 an officer in the company suggested that the founder’s name be removed from a sign in New York City. However, Sanger’s work, grounded in racism and eugenics, continued.
More recently, rapper Kanye West reminded the country of abortion’s racist roots when he told Tucker Carlson that the push for abortion is advocating for a “genocide of the black race.”
But despite her traumatic abortion experience, Bush argues that limiting abortion “access” is a form of “medical discrimination” which would prevent black women and girls from allegedly necessary healthcare. Bush has advocated for abortion throughout her time in Congress.
For the past two days, the Squad member has traveled across Missouri for a “Reproductive Freedom Tour.”
“People everywhere need to know that Dems are the pro-human rights, pro-bodily autonomy, pro-reproductive justice party fighting to protect our fundamental rights!” Bush wrote in a Twitter post. “This is how we win.”
I’m proud to announce the Roe The Vote: Reproductive Freedom Tour across Missouri!
People everywhere need to know that Dems are the pro-human rights, pro-bodily autonomy, pro-reproductive justice party fighting to protect our fundamental rights!
This is how we win. pic.twitter.com/109y0lDw5C
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) September 23, 2022
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