The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.
There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as m… - Willie Parker
There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as m…
- Willie Parker
I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on who is in the Whi… - Willie Parker
I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on who is in the Whi…
The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think. - Willie Parker
The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction. - Willie Parker
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions. - Willie Parker
There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.
If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goe… - Willie Parker
If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goe…
Most of us have to think worst-case scenario. - Willie Parker
Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything. - Willie Parker
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstr… - Willie Parker
Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstr…
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