As Kamala Harris gives an abortion speech in Georgia, 538 looked at how anti-abortion Republicans performed in primaries this year.
For the first time since she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris has given a speech focused squarely on abortion rights.
Kamala Harris campaigned Friday on restoring abortion rights in Georgia, where most polls show her trailing Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The Democratic presidential nominee delivered a broad onslaught against Trump and his Republican allies, criticizing them over in vitro fertilization, contraception and a failure to protect maternal health.
Since Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was elected lieutenant governor in 2020, he has rarely shied away from expressing his beliefs, no matter how controversial or offensive they might be. Past comments also have resurfaced in videos and social media posts, and Robinson often has doubled down on those comments.
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Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis,” Kamala Harris said in Georgia, where reporting this week found that the deaths of two women were a result of delayed treatment for medication abortions.
Kamala Harris campaigned Friday on restoring abortion rights in Georgia, where most polls show her trailing Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Winfrey introduced celebrities and shepherded an audience that was both live and on Zoom between energetic applause and somber reflection.
At times on Friday, Harris grew emotional as she spoke about maternal mortality, as she did on Wednesday night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. She singled out the “preventable” death of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who, according to medical experts, would have survived had Georgia laws allowed her access to a routine life-saving procedure.
Vice President Kamala Harris spotlighted the death of a woman in Georgia who was unable to obtain access to a legal abortion, laying the blame on Donald Trump and his role in the US Supreme Court overturning protections for the procedure.