According to vice president Kamala Harris, lawmakers must take action and enact legislation ensuring that American women have access to abortions.
Harris said that when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women had lost a “constitutional right” in an interview with CBS News’ Robert Costa.
“I think we all share a tremendous feeling of indignation,” Harris remarked, “that the United States Supreme Court removed a recognized constitutional right from the women of America.”
“We are now looking at a scenario where the government can meddle in what is one of the most intimate and private decisions that someone can make,” the vice president stated.
The interview will air on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ this Sunday.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Friday to increase access to abortion medication through the Department of Health and Human Services and to facilitate women’s travel to states where abortions are permitted.
We also need Congress to take action, according to Harris, since it is through that body of the government that rights that were previously taken away from American women have been codified, or placed into law.
When asked if she felt as though past Democratic leaders had failed in not writing Roe v Wade into law, Harris dodged the question: ‘I think that, to be very honest with you, I — I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believed that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled.’
Harris avoided echoing calls from other Democrats for conservative Supreme Court judges should be impeached.
The former senator from California did admit that she didn’t ‘trust’ the justices when they claimed that Roe v. Wade was a decided legal matter.
I begin with my experience having served in the Senate, Harris stated. I never took them for real. I had no faith in them. That is the reason I abstained.
The vice president urged Congress to take action on Roe v. Wade, saying, “If you think about the Voting Rights Act, Congress acted, and the Civil Rights Act, Congress acted because we decided as a nation, we would put it into law wherever there was any question, especially through the courts or any other system, about the sanctity of these rights.”
In regards to Roe and its guiding principles, we must act in that way.
It happens just days after Harris faced harsh criticism for what seemed to be an incoherent statement in the wake of the July 4th massacre in Highland Park that left seven people dead.
We have to take this thing seriously as you are because you have been compelled to take this seriously, Harris remarked at the shooting site.
She said, “The entire nation should comprehend and have the capacity for empathy to see that this could occur anywhere [to] any individual or group of individuals in any society.” And we ought to get together and express why it must end.
Word salad, one person commented on the speech on Twitter. Means nothing at all. Another stated: “Unbroken streak of not making a single meaningful comment as vice president for like nineteen months now. Its constancy is almost admirable. Harris met on Friday with Democratic legislators from Indiana, Florida, Nebraska, and Montana, states with Republican governors and legislatures that may soon approve abortion restrictions.
Harris was quoted as saying at the meeting that the Biden administration would show ‘commitment to protecting access to reproductive health care.’ The vice president urged pro-abortion lawmakers to ‘continue defending reproductive rights and freedoms at the state level.’
How near to death must a patient be before a doctor intervenes, South Dakota Democrat Erin Healy said at the meeting.
There should be no restrictions on South Dakotans’ ability to go anyplace they like in our nation. The future of America looks pretty bleak if state border regulations are enforced about who may and may not leave.
During a special legislative session, South Dakota’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, intends to further tighten the state’s prohibition on abortion.
While Indiana Democrat Phil GiaQuinta spoke with WPTA about his impressions of Harris’ meeting, he stated: “I think the administration is doing a wonderful job, excellent job, putting out the message that they believe in the health and welfare of women. Once more, politicians have no business making that choice.
According to NBC News, Lorraine Voles, Harris’ new chief of staff, has made the vice president more involved in the Biden administration’s response to significant events.
According to a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted June 24-27, California Governor Gavin Newsom would perform better than the vice president in a hypothetical 2024 presidential race against former President Donald Trump.
In a head-to-head comparison between Harris and Trump, the two are tied at 41%, with another 18% stating they are undecided about their vote in the fictitious 2024 election.
However, when the former president was pitted against Newsom, the California Democrat only had a one point lead (39 to 40%).