On abortion, Kamala Harris has the receipts

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On abortion, Kamala Harris has the receipts
Harris won’t let Donald Trump or JD Vance flip the script on abortion

By Sabrina Haake
Contributing Writer
Published July 29, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Another Trump abortion ban is set to take effect today. The State of Iowa joins the growing ranks of Republican-led states banning abortion at six weeks. Iowans woke up Monday to a new reality of state-forced birth.

Kamala Harris will also wake up to a new reality. After President Biden withdrew and endorsed Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee, Harris raised a historic $250 million in campaign donations in under three days, much of it from first time donors, and young voter registration surged by 700%.

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Harris will remind voters how Trump publicly congratulated himself, bragging in writing that:

After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone… Without me, there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!

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Faced with opinion polls showing that a strong majority of Americans think Trump overturning Roe v. Wade was a “bad thing,” Trump is now marketing a softer position on abortion, saying that rather than a national ban, it should be left up to individual states to decide. Veep candidate and antiabortion extremist JD Vance, who would criminalize abortion even in cases of rape and incest because “two wrongs don’t make a right,” and who thinks “childless cat ladies” should not equally participate in democracy, now parrots Trump’s “softening,”

Letting states decide via popular vote whether women — or the government — should make private health care decisions is more gaslighting than softening. Under the 14th Amendment, all persons born or naturalized in the United States have been entitled to the same Equal Protection under the law since 1866, regardless of popular whim. The whole point of the 14th Amendment was to remove fundamental human rights from the vicissitudes of popular opinion, which, as MAGA illustrates, is easily manipulated. ......................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/29/on-abortion-kamala-harris-has-the-receipts/