THE POSSIBLE OVERTURN OF FEDERAL
ABORTION PROTECTIONS.
TENNESSEE GOP SENATOR MARSHA
BLACKBURN SITS ON THE SENATE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND SHE
JOINS ME NOW TO REACT.
SENATOR, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
>> GOOD MORNING.
CARLEY: WE HEARD, WE SAW WHAT A
SUMMER OF RAGE LOOKED LIKE
DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020, AND
NOW WE COULD SEE ONE AGAIN.
WHAT’S YOUR REACTION FROM WHAT
YOU JUST HEARD FROM THAT
PRO-ABORTION ACTIVIST?
>> CARLEY, THIS IS SOMEONE, AS
YOU SAID, THEY ARE FOR ABORTION.
THEY ARE NOT FOR SENDING THIS
BACK TO THE STATES, WHICH IS
WHAT WITH ROE V. WADE WOULD DO.
IT’S NOT A FEDERAL BAN WITH ON
ABORTION.
AND WHAT THEY HAVE DECIDE
DECIDED IS THAT THEY ARE GOING
TO BE MILITANT IN THEIR TACTICS,
THEY’RE GOING TO SHOW UP AT
JUSTICES’ HOMES, HEIR GOING TO
BREAK THE LAW -- THEY’RE GOING
TO BREAK THE LAW, THEY ARE GOING
TO RAGE AGAINST JUDGES AND
AGAINST THOSE IN ELECTED OFFICE
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO GET THEIR
WAY.
AND THEY WANT IT DONE EXACTLY
THE WAY THEY WANT IT DONE.
SO THEY’RE WILLING TO TO BREAK
THE LAW.
NOW, DOJ SHOULD -- INSTEAD OF
FOCUSING ON PARENTS THAT SHOW UP
AT A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING --
THEY SHOULD BE OUT HERE
COMMUNICATING TO THESE
PROTESTERS SAYING GET OFF THESE
STREETS, GET AWAY FROM THESE
HOMES, PEACEFUL PROTEST IS TO BE
CONDUCTED IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE,
NOT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE’S FRONT
DOOR, NOT DISRUPTING THEIR WHOLE
COMMUNITY.
CARLEY: SENATOR, DEMOCRATS
BELIEVE THAT THE ABORTION ISSUE
IS A WINNING ISSUE FOR THEM.
BUT THEN YOU SEE THE FIRE
BOMBING OF A WISCONSIN PRO-LIFE
CENTER AND SUPREME COURT
JUSTICES IN HIDING AS PEOPLE ARE
PROTESTING IN FRONT OF THEIR
HOMES.
I DO THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
LOOK AT THAT, AND THEY THINK
IT’S EXTREME.
ARE DEMOCRATS MISCALCULATING
THAT SITUATION? >> THEY ARE MISCALCULATING.
>> THEY ARE MISCALCULATING.
I WAS TALKING TO AN
INDEPENDENT-MINDED,
DEMOCRAT-LEANING VOTER
YESTERDAY, AND THEY WERE ALL
UPSET ABOUT THIS AT FIRST.
AND THEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT IT
WAS NOT A BAN ON ABORTION.
THEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT THE
DEMOCRATS WERE TRYING TO MAKE
THIS ALL ABOUT ALLOWING LATE
TERM ABORTION ANY PLACE,
ANYTIME, ANYWHERE IN EVERY
SINGLE STATE, AND THEY SAID WAIT
A MINUTE, THIS ISN’T ABOUT ROE
V. WADE WITH.
AND THE SETTING OF REGULATIONS
AND RESTRICTIONS OUGHT TO BE
GOING BACK TO THE STATES.
CARLEY: YEAH.
>> IT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE IN
WASHINGTON D.C.
CARLEY: YOU KNOW, SENATOR, I
REALLY WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT
THIS BECAUSE YOUR HOME STATE OF
TENNESSEE IS AMONG THE TOP
STATES HIT HARDEST BY THE BABY
FORMULA SHORTAGE, AND I
UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE SOME
BIPARTISAN SUPPLY CHAIN
LEGISLATION ON THIS ISSUE THAT
WOULD MAKE IT SO THIS NEVER IF
HAPPENS AGAIN.
TELL US ABOUT THAT.
>> YES.
SENATOR ME MENENDEZ AND I HAD
OUR SUPPLY CHAIN DATABASE BILL
MOVE FORWARD FROM COMMERCE
COMMITTEE LAST WEEK.
AND, CARLEY, THIS WOULD PUT IN
PLACE A NATIONAL DATABASE SO
THAT MANUFACTURERS -- AND THIS
IS A PART OF THE MANUFACTURERS
EXTENSION PROGRAM -- THAT WOULD
PUT IN PLACE A DATABASE SO THAT
MANUFACTURERS KNOW WHAT
PRODUCTS, COMPONENTS ARE
AVAILABLE, WHERE THEY ARE, WHERE
THE GLITCHES ARE MT. SUPPLY
CHAIN AND HELP -- IN THE SUPPLY
CHAIN AND HELP OUR DOMESTIC
MANUFACTURERS DO A BETTER JOB.
THIS OUGHT NOT TO HAVE EVER
HAPPENED.
WHITE HOUSE KNEW ABOUT THIS
ISSUE BACK IN OCTOBER.
THE FDA HAS NOT WORKED WITH
ABBOTT IN A PRODUCTIVE MANNER TO
GET THIS BACK OPEN.
AND THANK GOODNESS ABBOTT HAS
PUT UP A 1-ING -- 1-800 NUMBER
THAT YOUR VIEWERS CAN YET OFF OF
SOCIAL MEDIA SO THAT PARENTS AND
CAREGIVERS CAN CALL AND GET THE
FORMULA THEY NEED.
YOU KNOW, THIS JUST SHOWS YOU
HOW BROKEN THIS ADMINISTRATION
IS WITH THIS BABY FORMULA