Kirsten Gillibrand says Democrats need to 'start playing offense' on abortion rights:
Kirsten Gillibrand speaks to the press after the second night of the Democratic debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand drove home her message about women’s rights and family issues at the Democratic debate in Miami on Thursday, emphasizing that Democrats need to “stop playing defense and start playing offense” when it comes to abortion rights. “Women’s reproductive rights are under assault by President Trump and the Republican Party,” the senator from New York said. “Thirty states are trying to overturn Roe v. Wade right now. And it is mind-boggling to me that we are debating on this stage in 2019 among Democrats whether women should have access to reproductive rights.
In announcing the plan in May, the presidential hopeful said the plan would “make all families stronger, regardless of who you are or what your ZIP code is.” To finance the plan, her campaign said, she would call for a tax on Wall Street transactions to generate up to $1 trillion in new revenue over 10 years.
“I have the most comprehensive approach, that experts agree is the most transformative plan to actually take on political corruption,” she said. “If we do that and get money out of politics, we can guarantee healthcare as a right, not a privilege, we can deal with institutional racism, and we can take on the corporate corruption that runs Washington.”
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