Mika Brzezinski: ‘Abortion Is a Life-Saving Word’

BRZEZINSKI: “So, Lauren, I just wonder how important you think it is to use wording that is authentic to the problem at hand. Since Roe was overturned, there are women who can’t get the health care that they need. Abortion is not a bad word. Abortion is a life-saving word. A D&C and the procedures that one uses when they are miscarrying, they are life-saving procedures. And when you use words like ‘reproductive freedom’ or ‘freedom over my body,’ it somehow triggers though on the far-right as if it’s something that can’t be said out loud. It certainly can be said out loud because it’s about saving one’s life. And whether you’re on the far-right or you’re a moderate Republican, if you’re a man or woman, there’s going to be someone you love who needs an abortion in order to live or to not be sterilized or to have a miscarriage in a less traumatizing way so they can have more children.”