On Tuesday's New Day, CNN host Alisyn Camerota suggested that pro-life conservatives are "depicting" women "as monsters" by passing laws restricting abortion as she discussed the issue with California Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
Then, after already hitting the issue from the pro-abortion left with her liberal guest, Camerota did not push back at Speier as she claimed women are being treated like "chattel" by pro-lifers.
Camerota brought up the issue of abortion by asking Speier about a recent tweet by her in which she recalled having an abortion because her pregnancy had complications that would have prevented her baby from surviving.
The CNN host then followed up: "And why do you think that at this particular culural moment it does seem as though women are somehow being depicted as monsters? I mean, why do you feel that that narrative has sprouted in this past with the Alabama law, with what we're seeing in Georgia, etc., etc.?"
Speier claimed women are portrayed as "chattel" as she suggested that it is unfair that women have to bear children even though men take part in producing them:
So I don't believe that they're being depicted as monsters -- I think that women are being depicted as chattel, that somehow we're the property of someone else. I mean, the truth of the matter is, you don't get pregnant unless a man puts sperm into your body, and yet the whole obligation about having a child resides with the woman.
She added:
If we are going to start regulating women and their reproductive health, well, maybe we should start regulating men and their reproductive health. I mean, I think this has gotten quite absurd, and I think Alabama is just one more example of the many states that have now passed laws to treat women as if they do not have control over their own bodies.
Camerota warmly responded: "Congresswoman Jackie Speier, we really appreciate the candid conversation that you have with us here on New Day. Thank you very much."
