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Best Quotes From Megan Rapinoe’s Emotional Speech To Media On Friday Over Roe v Wade Decision

By David Moore June 24, 2022
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Rapinoe says this is not a women’s issue, it’s an everybody issue.
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The USWNT plays Colombia in a friendly on Saturday and spoke to the media Friday ahead of the game. Originally only head coach Vlatko Andonovski and Lindsey Horan were supposed to be interviewed, but Megan Rapinoe took center stage. The Megan Rapinoe Roe v Wade speech to the media on Friday was emotional.

Rapinoe began with a nearly nine-minute rant, tirade, whatever you want to call it on her initial reaction and thoughts to the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v Wade. After she finished talking, she answered three questions from media. All together she spoke for around 20 minutes. 

Here were her best quotes and the full interview broken up into 14 different parts.

Five Best Quotes From Megan Rapinoe Roe vs Wade Speech 

1. “I wish that we could just talk about soccer today. But obviously with the ruling on Roe v Wade, that takes precedence over everything. It's hard to put into words how sad a day this is for me personally, for my teammates, for just all of the people out there who this is going to affect.”

2. “It stops people from having safe abortions. I would encourage people to understand all of the different aspects that overturning Roe v Wade will have on so many … actually on everyone in the entire country. I just can't understate how sad and how cruel this is. I think the cruelty is the point, because this is not pro-life by any means.”

3. “The makeup of the court is ill-equipped to handle this kind of decision. Frankly, a majority male court making decisions about my body or any other woman's body is completely misguided and wildly out of touch with the desires of the country, the will of the country and the will of the people. And I think they acting incredibly irresponsibly and inappropriately.”

4. “I absolutely think gay rights are under attack. I absolutely think we will see legislation pop up state by state by state that will eventually come to this radical court. I have zero faith that my rights will be upheld by the court. I have faith in our country and I have faith in people and I have faith in the voters. And if you ever needed a fucking motivation to vote, to get involved. Quite literally people's lives depend on it. Like actual lives, we're talking life and death, and also, you know, your life in terms of what does it mean to even be alive if you can't be your full self, like what the fuck is the point?”

5. “If not for men, we would have none of these laws. We would have none of the inequality in terms of gender rights and this sort of onslaught on abortion rights. None of this would be happening. We did not do this ourselves. And I would take it personally, what I'm saying as an accusation, as a come to Jesus moment, as a look in the mirror.”

Full Megan Rapinoe Roe v Wade Speech

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