Billionaire TV personality Oprah Winfrey was the surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, August 22. During her speech, Oprah railed about abortion. Then, hours after her speech, Oprah told CBS that if Kamala manages to win the 2024 election, “women all over the world will be weeping in the streets.”
During her speech at the DNC, Oprah mainly focused on abortion and characterized it as being vital to the “American Dream.” Further, she attempted to use it to argue that really it is the Democrats who are the party of freedom, not Trump and the Republicans. She did not focus on the Bill of Rights freedoms like the right to bear arms, just abortion.
She said, for example, “Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all seen brave people walk onto the stage and share their most private pain. Amanda and Josh, Kaitlyn, Hadley—they told us their stories of rape and incest and near-death experiences from having the state deny them the abortion that their doctor explained was medically necessary. And they told us these things for one reason, and that is to keep what happened to them from happening to anybody else. Because if you do not have autonomy over this—(Winfrey gestures to her body) over this—if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American dream.”
She also characterized abortion activists as being the best Americans amongst us, telling the enthusiastically pro-abortion crowd, “The women and men who are battling to keep us from going back to a time of desperation and shame and stone-cold fear, they are the new freedom fighters. And make no mistake: They are the best of America.”
In any case, speaking to “CBS Mornings” mere hours after her speech at the DNC, saying that Harris winning the election would mean that the “glass ceiling” of American politics has been “shattered” and that women will cry with excitement as a result. She said, “It will mean that the glass ceiling has been shattered.” She added, “Women all over the world will be weeping in the streets.”
She also said, speaking to co-host Tony Dokoupil about why women would weep for Kamala, “It will mean that actually anything is possible because this is her mother, her father, two immigrants coming to the United States … only in America could Kamala Harris’ story be possible.” She added, “And I’m here, because only in America.”
Then, speaking yet again about how important abortion is, Winfrey said, “A lot of things are on the line, a lot of things are at stake. I don’t need the right to abortion, but I believe that the right to control your body and be able to control what happens to you, particularly as a ‘woman person,’ in this country, it’s essential, it’s fundamental.”
Watch Oprah speak about “freedom” and abortion in America to CBS here:
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