An MSNBC guest compared pro-lifers to suicide bombers on Saturday's 'PoliticsNation' during a discussion on the Supreme Court's decision to hear a Mississippi abortion case.
An MSNBC guest compared pro-lifers to suicide bombers on Saturday's"PoliticsNation" during a discussion on thein May to review Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, dealing with a Mississippi law to ban abortions after 15 weeks.
MSNBC host Al Sharpton asked his guest, civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson, to react to the court case in a larger discussion on civil rights. She said the right to an abortion may not be plainly written out in the Constitution, but, she argued,"neither is the right to bear arms." "Having the right to an abortion is a constitutional right, it's grounded in the right to privacy," she."I found it really interesting that part of this argument is the argument that the right to an abortion is not explicitly listed in the Constitution. But you know what? Neither is the right to bear arms. The way that we interpret that law is the interpretation of a constitutional provision, the Second Amendment.
Sharpton did not push back on her analogy, conservative watchdog NewsBusters noted, calling it another example of the left-leaning network's"vitriol" against abortion opponents. Jefferson made the comparison two days after the
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