Speaking with CNN’s Laura Coates, Senator Reverend Warnock addressed the recent abortion ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court

 During the interview, Senator Reverend Warnock highlighted his deep concern with the weaponization of religion by partisan actors

 Senator Reverend Warnock on Laura Coates Live: “As we watch all of this chaos unfold […] We are reminded that elections really do matter. […] I continue to believe that a patient’s room is too narrow and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the U.S. government”  

Senator Reverend Warnock on Laura Coates Live: “Making my faith visible is about feeding the hungry, it is about healing the sick. Which is why I have fought so hard to expand Medicaid in Georgia, to get us to fully embrace the Affordable Care Act.”

Senator Warnock joins Laura Coates Live, watch HERE

Washington D.C. — On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), joined CNN’s Laura Coates on Laura Coates Live for a wide-ranging interview in which the Senatorhighlighted the critical importance of protecting women’s reproductive health and criticized how partisan actors are weaponizing religion to drive division in the country.

Read a transcript of highlights from Senator Warnock’s interview on Laura Coates Live below:

ON RELIGION WEAPONIZATION

• “I am deeply troubled by the weaponization of religion. I don’t use my faith as a weapon, I use it as a bridge. I think we are in these intense culture wars in our country, where faith just becomes one more tool in the arsenal for some people. And I think that’s unfortunate.”

• “Because for me, making my faith visible is about feeding the hungry, it is about healing the sick. Which is why I have fought so hard to expand Medicaid in Georgia, to get us to fully embrace the Affordable Care Act.”

• “If people want to make their faith visible, show up for your neighbor. […] I’m not impressed by the size of anybody’s Bible, I’m impressed by the size of your heart.”

ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

• “I’m really focused on the women and the families who are at the center of all of this, this is bigger than the culture wars. This is about people’s actual lives. This is about women, in many cases, who want to have children and have found themselves in terrible medical situations, and the hands of their doctors are literally tied. They don’t know what to do with the fear of prosecution. This is not a joke, this is serious business, and it reminds us that elections matter. We have to do everything we can to get women their power back.”

• “They literally used a 160-year-old law to say to women ‘you don’t get to decide your future, you don’t get to decide the future of your families, you don’t get to make the decisions regarding your own body.’ A law that is older than the state of Arizona itself.” 

• “As we watch all of this chaos unfold […] We are reminded that elections really do matter. […] I continue to believe that a patient’s room is too narrow and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the U.S. government.”

Watch the full interview HERE.

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