Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that Donald Trump and his team would take away American women’s right to abortion during Tuesday’s heated debate.
“Donald Trump personally selected three Supreme Court justices with the intention that they would overturn Roe V. Wade.”
The issue of abortion has become a major election issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which declared women have a constitutional right to abortion, in 2022.
Since that decision, 14 Republican states have enacted near-total bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, and three more have banned it after six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant.
Harris became one of the Democratic Party’s leading voices in support of women’s right to choose abortion, even before she became the party’s nominee.
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She called on Congress to pass federal legislation to guarantee access to abortion nationwide and vowed to block any federal abortion ban that a GOP-controlled Congress might propose.
Trump, for his part, has said that the decision whether to legalize abortion should be up to individual states, as should whether to prosecute women and their doctors.
He has already said he would not sign a nationwide abortion ban and would not seek to block access to abortion pills.
Last month, Trump said abortions should be allowed after six weeks of pregnancy, but he claimed Democrats wanted to allow abortions up until just before birth. Democrats have denied that claim.
With post wires
