Harris, in Georgia, seeks to tie deaths of two women to 'Trump abortion ban'

Vice President Kamala Harris connected Friday slammed erstwhile President Donald Trump and Republicans for being "hypocrites" successful a high-profile code successful Atlanta, pursuing a ProPublica study that elaborate the deaths of 2 Georgia women it said were a nonstop effect of the state's six-week termination ban.

She argued that it's intolerable to bash what's successful the champion involvement for women and children and besides enforce termination bans.

"One successful 3 women successful America lives successful a authorities with a Trump termination ban," Harris said. "Think astir that erstwhile you besides harvester that with what we cognize has been agelong lasting neglect astir an contented similar maternal mortality. Think astir that erstwhile you compound that with what has been longstanding neglect of women successful communities with a deficiency of the capable resources they request for wellness attraction prenatal, during their pregnancy, postpartum. Think astir that."

She continued: "And these hypocrites privation to commencement talking astir what's successful the champion involvement of women and children. Well, wherever ya been, wherever ya been erstwhile it comes to taking attraction of the women and children of America, wherever ya been? How situation they?"

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run lawsuit connected Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, successful Atlanta.

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She mocked the erstwhile president's flip-flopping grounds regarding termination -- claiming that, if fixed the chance, helium would prohibition termination nationwide.

"I bash judge successful the objection to prevention the mother's life," Harris said portion imitating Trump's voice.

She brought up the election-season U.S. Senate ballot to beforehand authorities that would warrant national protections and security sum for successful vitro fertilization treatments that was blocked by Republicans aft Trump called himself a "leader" connected the issue.

"Oh, and connected that past constituent you astir apt saw this week, for the 2nd time, Republicans successful the United States Senate blocked a measure that would support entree to IVF treatment. Now see among the multitude of ironies, the information that, connected the 1 hand, these extremists privation to archer women they don't person the state to extremity an unwanted pregnancy, and connected the different hand, these extremists are telling women and their partners they don't person the state to commencement a family," she said.

"Okay, and they privation to restrict entree to contraception arsenic well. And present Donald Trump says that helium would personally formed his ballot successful Florida, which is wherever helium present lives, to enactment their utmost termination ban, conscionable similar the 1 that is present successful Georgia," she added.

In Detroit connected Thursday, Harris was capable to conscionable with the household of Amber Thurman, 1 of the women ProPublica featured successful its report, portion participating successful a livestream lawsuit with Oprah Winfrey. Her mother, Shanette Thurman, told Harris that she could not halt reasoning astir the connection "preventable."

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris joins Oprah Winfrey astatine Oprah's Unite for America Live Streaming event, Sept. 19, 2024 successful Farmington Hills, Mich.

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"Amber's mother, Shanette, told maine that the connection preventable is implicit and implicit again successful her head. When she learned astir however her kid died, the satellite preventable," Harris said Friday. "She cannot, she can't halt reasoning astir the connection that they spoke to her. It was preventable. And done the symptom and the grief of her mother, who courageously told her story, I promised her, arsenic she has asked, that we volition marque definite Amber is not conscionable remembered arsenic a statistic."

Harris had the assemblage accidental Amber Thurman's sanction backmost to her.

"Now we cognize that astatine slightest 2 women, and those are lone the stories we cognize present successful the authorities of Georgia, died, died due to the fact that of a Trump termination ban," said Harris. "And we volition talk her name: Amber Nicole Thurman. The assemblage repeated her sanction 3 times.

She erstwhile again labeled Trump arsenic the "architect" of termination bans.

"This is simply a wellness attraction crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect. He brags astir overturning Roe v. Wade successful his ain words, quote, 'I did it, and I'm arrogant to person done it.' He is proud, arrogant that women are done."

Reproductive rights person been 1 of the driving issues of the Harris' campaign. Her squad launched a "reproductive freedom" autobus circuit successful aboriginal September with their archetypal halt successful Palm Beach County, erstwhile President Donald Trump's backyard.

During this month's statesmanlike debate, Trump noted that helium had returned the regularisation of termination attraction to authorities governments, saying it should beryllium up to the states to decide. He would not perpetrate during the statement to vetoing a imaginable national termination prohibition if it came to his table arsenic president. Instead, helium said that concern would not arise.

Thurman died 2 weeks aft the Georgia prohibition was passed successful 2022, aft waiting 20 hours successful a suburban Atlanta infirmary for an incomplete abortion, according to the ProPublica report. Miller died aft declining to question aesculapian attraction for complications from termination medication, the study said.

Georgia is simply a cardinal battleground authorities that Biden narrowly won successful 2020, beating erstwhile Trump by astir 12,000 votes. Recognizing that she could not lone trust connected voters successful the metro-Atlanta country to support the authorities blue, Harris visited agrarian counties successful southeastern Georgia during a two-day plaything that culminated successful a rally successful Savannah.

Currently, Harris is neck-and-neck with Trump successful the polls successful the state, according to 538's average. Trump leads by a one-point borderline successful Georgia, with 48% compared to Harris' 47%.