Kamala Harris said the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling Friday is causing a ‘health care crisis’ in the U.S. as she slammed the decision to hand back abortion rights to the states

Kamala Harris criticized the decision to return abortion rights to the states and claimed that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday is leading to a “health care crisis” in the United States.

During a visit to Plainfield, Illinois on Friday, the vice president was forced to change her remarks from highlighting the administration’s expansion of maternal healthcare to responding to the issued opinion removing privacy rights that protected women’s right to an abortion.

Here is what that ruling means: For almost 50 years, we have discussed what Roe v. Wade safeguards. We can only discuss what Roe v. Wade protected as of this very moment. To a crowd gathering at the Plainfield YMCA, Harris remarked, “Past tense.”

This is a catastrophe in health care, she declared.

Understand that millions of American women will go to bed tonight without having access to the medical and reproductive care they had this morning, Harris continued.

Without having 50 years of the same reproductive or medical care as their mothers and grandmothers.

Shortly after President Joe Biden spoke to the nation about the choice and clearly blamed his predecessor Donald Trump, the vice president made his remarks.

Biden described it as “a profoundly serious occasion” and a “sad day for the court and the country” during remarks in the White House’s Cross Hall.

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States explicitly revoked a constitutional privilege it had previously upheld for the American people.

They just took it away, not limited it. According to Biden, it has never been done to a right that is so crucial to so many Americans. But they succeeded.

Let’s be clear: after Roe, the lives and health of women in this country are now in danger.

Biden emphasized how conservative judges, including those chosen by President Richard Nixon, determined the Roe case and defended the right to an abortion in other instances over the years.