Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked pro-life activists who believe “you’re harming a life, I believe this is life” this week, and argued that abortion is morally justified because “our Jewish brothers and sisters” support it.
“For people who say, ‘Oh, but you’re, you know, you’re, you’re harming a life,'” Ocasio-Cortez said, mockingly using air quotes. “Well, some religions don’t. So how about that?”
“Our Jewish brothers and sisters, they are able to have an abortion according to their faith,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “You know, there are so many faiths that do not have the same definition of life as fundamentalist Christians. And so, we, how, what about their rights, what about their right to exercise their faith?”
“It’s ridiculous, and it is theocratic, it’s authoritarian, it is wrong,” the New York Rep. insisted.
The Pew Research Center reported in 2018 that “American Jews (83%) in the 2014 survey were much more supportive of legal abortion than the general population.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rants about how babies in the womb are not a life.
"Oh… you’re harming a life, I believe this is life," she says mockingly. pic.twitter.com/wbMALo9bGC
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 20, 2022
Speaking of her own Jewish heritage at an event organized by the group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center in Queens, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I knew it! I sensed it!”
“One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And … the story goes that during the Spanish Inquisition, so many people were forced to convert on the exterior to Catholicism, but on the interior, continued to practice their faith, continued to be who they were, even though they were pressured to not be that on the outside world.”
Before everyone jumps one me – yes, culture isn’t DNA.
But to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of:
African Moors + slaves,
Taino Indians,
Spanish colonizers,
Jewish refugees,
and likely others.We are all of these things and something else all at once – we are Boricua. https://t.co/IFC4mwAjor
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 10, 2018
