Representative Ayanna Pressly (D-MA) challenged Secretary Betsy DeVos’s claim that being pro-choice is similar to being pro-slavery. In a brief note addressed to DeVos, posted to Twitter on Thursday, the first-term congresswoman and "Squad" member had stern words for the woman running President Donald Trump’s Department of Education.

According to Politico, DeVos was speaking at a conservative Christian event in Washington on Wednesday when she made the comment, comparing President Abraham Lincoln’s role in abolishing slavery to how the Trump administration is fighting to limit reproductive freedoms.

"He, too, contended with the 'pro-choice' arguments of his day," DeVos said in remarks the Department of Education provided to Politico. "They suggested that a state’s 'choice' to be slave or to be free had no moral question in it." DeVos went on to call advocates for slavery "pro-choicers."

"Lincoln was right about the slavery 'choice' then, and he would be right about the life 'choice' today," she continued. "Because, as it’s been said: Freedom is not about doing what we want; freedom is about having the right to do what we ought."

Pressley tweeted her response to a tweet from The Hill reporting the remarks. She challenged DeVos to come visit her for an educational conversation.

"Dear Betsy," Pressley wrote. "As a Black woman & the Chair of the abortion access task force, I invite you to come by the Hill and say this to my face. Would welcome the opportunity to educate you."

"The rhetoric & policies of anti choice zealots like DeVos put the lives & bodily autonomy of far too many people at risk," Pressley continued, before highlighting some key policy proposals that could do just that. “That’s why we need to pass EACH & #repealhyde.”

"EACH" is the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act, legislation that seeks to make abortions more affordable. A Senate version of the bill is sponsored by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and another version in the House is sponsored by Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA). Pressley and all three other Squad members (Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib) are among 175 co-sponsors.

The Hyde Amendment is a measure that effectively bans federal funding through Medicaid for abortions, except in cases of life-threatening complications, rape, or incest. EACH is viewed by many — including its original sponsor, Representative Lee — as an intentional effort to overturn Hyde.

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