Sunday 15 May 2022 04:55 PM 'We won Roe v. Wade a long time ago' Pelosi says as Sanders insists 'this ... trends now

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Nancy Pelosi blamed 'creature' Donald Trump for emboldening the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and said the case was 'won a long time ago' as Senator Bernie Sanders demands the upper chamber continuously bring the bill codifying abortion rights until it's passed.

'This is not about a long game. We played a long game – we won Roe v. Wade a long time ago. We voted to protect it over time. We have elected a Democratic House of Representatives that is pro-choice,' the House Speaker told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday.

'Let's not take our eye off the ball,' she added. 'The ball is: This Court, which is dangerous to the freedoms of our country.'

Bash noted that conservatives have had the goal for decades to overturn the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that made abortion constitutionally protected and pointed out that some are critical of Democratic leaders, claiming they 'should have seen this coming.'

'Who would have ever suspected that a creature like Donald Trump would become President of the United States, wading a list of judges that he would appoint – therefore getting the support of the far-right. And appointing those anti-freedom justices to the court,' Pelosi responded.

Sanders still has hope for legislation that would codify abortion rights into federal law even after it failed to come to the floor Wednesday due to a GOP filibuster.

'Nobody should think that this process is dead,' the Vermont independent senator said to NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd on Sunday.

'We should bring those bills up again, and again, and again.'