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Post by Webster on Apr 12, 2024 12:20:32 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Kamala Harris expected to blame Trump for US abortion rights crisis on Arizona visitThe vice-president, Kamala Harris, is set to travel to Tucson, Arizona, for a campaign event where she is expected to explicitly blame Donald Trump as the “architect” of the abortion rights crisis in the US. Harris’s trip to Arizona comes after the state’s supreme court ruled on Wednesday that a 1864 law with no exceptions for rape or incest can go into effect. “Donald Trump is the architect of this healthcare crisis. And that’s not a fact he hides. In fact, he brags about it,” Harris is expected to say, Politico reports. “We all must understand who is to blame. It is the former president, Donald Trump. It is Donald Trump who, during his campaign in 2016, said women should be punished for seeking an abortion.” With Harris instructing her team to designate the trip as a campaign event, one senior Harris aide told Politico that she is “not subject to the Hatch Act and she can say whatever the heck she wants … we could really be unencumbered in how we tell the story.” Since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, Harris has repeatedly gone after anti-abortion conservatives as she and Joe Biden cement abortion as a key campaign issue in this year’s presidential election campaign.
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Post by Webster on Apr 12, 2024 12:24:29 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Apr 30, 2024 14:49:12 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Trump expresses support for efforts to monitor pregnant womenTrump also signaled his support for the possibility that states hostile to abortion rights would attempt to monitor pregnant women. In the interview with Time, Trump was asked if he believes “states should monitor women’s pregnancies so they can know if they’ve gotten an abortion after the ban?”. Trump replied, in part: “I think they might do that. Again, you’ll have to speak to the individual states.” Trump was then asked if he was personally comfortable with people being prosecuted for receiving abortions after a state-implemented ban. He said: The states are going to say. It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions. And by the way, Texas is going to be different than Ohio. And Ohio is going to be different than Michigan. I see what’s happening.
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