HARTFORD, Connecticut – Thousands of Connecticut residents attended the second annual March for Life Wednesday where they heard State Representative Treneé McGee (D-West Haven) assert she is not an “anomaly,” since “one in three Democrats are pro-life and there are many black pro-life women across the world.”
Today is a beautiful day to defend life at the #CTMarchForLife! pic.twitter.com/U68gpvbu1B
— March for Life (@March_for_Life) March 22, 2023
McGee, who also addressed the tens of thousands of pro-life activists at the national March for Life in Washington, D.C., in January, urged her fellow Connecticut residents at the state Capitol in Hartford to help “create a culture of life.”
“LIFE – repeat after me!” she shouted to the crowd several times, who responded in turn.
The state lawmaker gained fame last year when she was one of 14 Connecticut House Democrats – among them 10 people of color, including McGee – who voted against a bill that ultimately passed and expanded abortion rights even further in the state.
McGee speaks at pro-life rallies about the harm abortion brings to the black community.
“I want to speak to the history of this industry and why I think it’s destructive to my community,” she said. “Black women make up 14% of child-bearing populations yet obtained 36.2% of all reported abortions. Black women have the highest abortion ratio in the country – 474 abortions per 1,000 live births.”
Rep. Trenee McGee on the editorial page of the Rep-Am today.
Please help us stop pro-abortion bill HB 5414 from becoming law: https://t.co/bhSXxOHZ4C pic.twitter.com/Q5h9d8jjsL
— Family Institute CT (@FICAction) April 26, 2022
In Hartford, McGee pointed to the courage of another black pro-life woman, Fannie Lou Hamer, who, she told the crowd, was forced to have a hysterectomy and never could bear children.
Hamer, she said, “stood for racial equity, voting rights, and for the preborn.”
“And, so, she stood against this as a genocidal thing,” the state lawmaker continued. “She said this was a genocide, and it was to destroy the black community. And, as I think about the 69 million abortions that have taken place, and how 19 million of them were black children, I think about my community – it becomes very personal to me.”
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— March for Life (@March_for_Life) March 22, 2023
McGee urged the crowd to build a culture of life by “caring about your neighbor, caring about the children in your community, caring about their education, and caring about the preborn.”
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Susan Berry, PhD, is national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected]
Photo “Treneé McGee” by March for Life.
