Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Donald Trump and company will take away the rights of women in the US to seek an abortion during Tuesday’s heated debate.
“Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the Supreme Court with the intention that they would overturn Roe V. Wade.”
The issue of abortion has become a top issue during the election following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade — which declared women have a constitutional right to have an abortion — in 2022.
Since the ruling, 14 red states have enacted near-complete bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy and three others banned it after six weeks of pregnancy — which is before most women know they’re pregnant.
Harris has emerged as one of the Democratic party’s leading voices advocating for women’s right to be able to choose to have an abortion — even before she became the party’s candidate.
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She has called on Congress to pass a federal law to ensure abortion access country-wide and promised to block any federal abortion bans that a GOP-controlled Congress could float.
Trump, on the other hand, has said the decision on whether abortion should be legal should be up to individual states — as should whether to prosecute the women and their doctors.
He has previously said he would not sign a national abortion ban into law and would not seek to block access to abortion pills.
Trump said last month that abortions should be allowed longer than at just six weeks but claimed Democrats want to allow abortions up to the moment before birth. Democrats have denied this.
With Post wires
