LIVE: Vice President Harris Speaks On 51st Anniversary Of Roe V. Wade, Which Donald Trump Killed
LIVE: Vice President Harris Speaks On 51st Anniversary Of Roe V. Wade, Which Donald Trump Killed
Remember, remember the fifth of Roe-vember. (The election is November 5.)
Today, Vice President Kamala Harris is in Big Bend, Wisconsin, where she’s kicking off her “Fight For Reproductive Freedoms” tour, in a state where just last week, Republicans introduced yet another abortion ban. (This time at 14 weeks.)
Politico Playbook has excerpts of the speech, in which Harris will rightly explain that the Republicans and Donald Trump did this to America, and they want to hurt you more.
“He made a decision to take your freedoms, and it is a decision he does not regret,” Harris will say, according to excerpts provided to POLITICO. “Just two weeks ago, he said, that for years, ‘they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated.’ And then he bragged, ‘I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.’
“He is proud. Proud that women across our nation are suffering? Proud that women have been robbed of a fundamental freedom? That doctors could be thrown in prison for caring for patients? That young women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers?”
Meanwhile at the White House, President Joe Biden will be having a meeting of his Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access, on the same day the administration announced new measures intended to protect access to contraception, abortion pills and emergency abortions, even in states where Republicans would rather pregnant people die in the hospital than abort a pregnancy that’s threatening them.
Wonkette will have more on all of that today.
President Biden started the month being far more aggressive about defending democracy from the threat of Donald Trump and his MAGA extremist Republican insurgent movement. We said then that they need to make abortion a central issue in this year’s campaign, and we hope this is the beginning of that. Ever since Dobbs, every time America votes on abortion, America votes for it.
But we have one nitpick and it’s going to be the same nitpick until it’s no longer necessary: you have to say “abortion.” Biden’s statement on today’s moves by the administration says, “On this day and every day, Vice President Harris and I are fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom against Republicans’ dangerous, extreme, and out-of-touch agenda.” Harris’s thing, again, is called the “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour.
Stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it with this so-called official messaging full of euphemisms and general bullcrap. People are ferociously pissed right now, and American citizens have shown us what they do when you take away their right to have an abortion.
Stop the goddamned pussyfooting around what the issue is, thank you, we love you, watch the wonderful vice president who, by the way, does not have that problem with saying “abortion.”
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I think Trump made an incredibly stupid mistake a while back by gleefully claiming full responsibility for the undoing of Roe v. Wade. Unless the universe has gone completely mad, that should cost him the election. He may be "shoring up his base," but most of the country does not agree with what has been done. Reproductive rights didn't use to a single-issue thing for voters, but now it will be. There are almost certainly a lot of supposedly conservative women out there who are hopping mad about this issue.
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This is one of my least favorite aspects of our current information saturation culture. "Here's what they're going to say, now go watch them say it." Takes all the bite out of serious conversations, and lowers it to the equivalent of listening to your favorite song live, waiting for certain riffs.