‘This Is A Healthcare Crisis. And We All Know Who Is to Blame: Donald Trump’
Vice president vows fight on second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade
In a sign how potent the issue of abortion rights will be to this year’s presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris marked the second anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision to overturn its landmark Roe v Wade ruling, upending nearly half a century of guaranteed national access to abortion.
Harris headlined a campaign event dedicated to the fight to restore abortion rights on Monday, on the campus of the University of Maryland, just outside of Washington DC.
She attended with several Democratic politicians in Maryland.
Also there was Kate Cox, the Texas woman who gained national attention when she denied emergency abortion care by the Texas Supreme Court due to a non-viable pregnancy.
Ultimately, Cox was forced to get the abortion services she needed out of state.
The vice president hailed Cox as a hero of the abortion rights movement.
“I said to Kate that, you know, I think, in moments of crisis, that the universe has a way of revealing the heroes among us who show extraordinary courage — not looking for any award or reward but just because they feel so strongly about something and being a voice for so many people,” said Harris, who has been the leader in the Biden administration on the issue of reproductive rights. “And, Kate, you are a hero of this movement and in this moment, and thank you.”
Harris observed the decision by the nation’s highest court to reverse nearly 50 years of women’s rights to healthcare.
“Over the past two years, in states across our nation, extremists have proposed and passed laws that criminalize doctors and punish women — laws that limit access to contraception and to fertility treatments like IVF. Even some of them trying to revive laws from the 1800s,” she said. “Today in America, one in three women — one in three women of reproductive age — lives in a state with an abortion ban. Many with no exception even for rape or incest.”
Abortion rights have been a strong issue across the country since Roe fell. Voters have affirmed abortion rights even in very red states, like Kansas and Ohio.
And the issue has powered electoral success for Democrats over the last two years.
Harris pinned the blame for the reversal of Roe squarely on Donald Trump, who as president appointed three right-wing justices who made overturning abortion rights possible.
“When he was in the White House, Donald Trump handpicked three members of the United States Supreme Court because he intended for them to overturn Roe v. Wade. And as he intended, they did. So, it was premeditated,” Harris said. “Since, extremist legislators across our nation have passed ban after band after ban. He had accomplices.
“And Trump has not denied, much less shown remorse for his actions. Instead, he quote, ‘proudly takes credit’ for overturning Roe,” she added. “My fellow Americans, in a court of law, that would be called an ‘admission’ and, some would say, a ‘confession’ all pointing to the ultimate issue. In the case of the stealing of reproductive freedom from the women of America, Donald Trump is guilty.”
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