Vivek Ramaswamy invites pro-choice heckler to speak at Iowa GOP talk
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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OTTUMWA, Iowa — While speaking at a public event with Iowa state GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann, Vivek Ramaswamy invited a pro-choice heckler to speak. Staffers on the Republican presidential hopeful’s campaign began to turn away the heckler, a distraught woman in athletic wear, when she began screaming about Roe v. Wade and rape. But Ramaswamy welcomed her and asked her to speak.
“If someone nonconsensually rapes me, I’m not having their child,” the heckler said, wiping away tears. “It’s my choice; it’s my body. I’ve already raised my kids that somebody implanted in me and doesn’t take care of. The system does nothing for the single mother. There’s no child support, and nobody goes after them. I raised my child by myself.”
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“I want to say: You’re doing one of the most important things, being a mother raising her children in this world,” Ramaswamy said. “Even if we have our disagreements, I want to say thank you. And part of what it means to live in this country is we have free speech. We get to speak our minds openly even if we all don’t agree.”
Ramaswamy then invited the audience to applause for the heckler as she left the event.