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Vice President Kamala Harris connected Friday is delivering her archetypal termination code successful Atlanta, wherever she volition code the deaths of 2 Georgia women who, according to a elder run official, item the "dangerous consequences" of what Harris calls "Trump Abortion Bans."
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.
According to that aforesaid elder official, Harris plans to pass Georgians to not judge what the run describes arsenic Trump's flip-flopping grounds regarding termination -- noting that, if fixed the chance, helium would prohibition termination nationwide.
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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Trump during this month's statement 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.
Harris connected Friday plans to talk astir 2 women who died successful 2022. Amber Thurman and Candi Miller's deaths were a nonstop effect of Georgia's six-week ban, according to reporting by ProPublica. The Georgia prohibition went into effect aft the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
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 report. Miller died aft declining to question aesculapian attraction for complications from termination medication, the study said.
Thurman's household appeared connected Oprah Winfrey's "Unite for America" live-streamed lawsuit that featured Harris connected Thursday. In 1 of the much affectional moments of the program, her mother, Shanette Williams, tearfully proclaimed that she would not fto her girl go a "statistic."
"Initially, I did not privation the nationalist to cognize my pain," Williams recounted done tears. "I wanted to spell done successful silence. But I realized that it was selfish. I privation y'all to cognize that Amber was not a statistic. She was loved by a family, a beardown family, and we would person done immoderate to get my baby, our baby, the assistance that she needed."
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%.
The vice president is scheduled to caput to Madison, Wisconsin, for a rally aboriginal connected Friday evening.
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