Kamala Harris denounces Trump for abortion bans after ‘preventable’ deaths

Vice President Kamala Harris Friday denounced erstwhile President Trump for pushing utmost termination bans aft a bombshell caller published study called the deaths of 2 Georgia moms “preventable.”

The Democratic statesmanlike nominee slammed Trump for backing restrictive termination laws similar Georgia’s, which a authorities sheet said played a “large” role successful the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.

“Amber waited 20 hours excruciating hours, until she was successful capable carnal distress that her doctors thought they could (legally) dainty her,” Harris told hundreds of supporters successful suburban Atlanta. “But they couldn’t prevention her.”

“It’s heartbreaking,” Harris added.

Harris derided Trump and vice statesmanlike moving mate JD Vance arsenic “hypocrites” and worse for claiming their anti-abortion policies are pro-family.

“It should not beryllium Donald Trump oregon the authorities telling women what to bash with their ain bodies,” she said. “How situation he.”

The code came a time aft Harris held an emotional gathering with Thurman’s family during a municipality hallway with Oprah Winfrey connected unrecorded television.

Harris choked backmost emotion aft proceeding the grieving household recount the communicative of her death.

“I’m conscionable truthful sorry,” Harris told Thurman’s mother.

Thurman, the parent of a young boy, died successful 2022 aft suffering uncommon complications from termination medication.

She went to the infirmary aft suffering terrible symptoms but doctors did not instantly dainty her amid fears they could look transgression charges nether Georgia’s recently enacted Republican law that bans abortions aft six weeks of pregnancy.

A authorities aesculapian sheet precocious ruled Thurman’s decease arsenic “preventable” and said delays successful providing attraction played a “large” relation successful her death, Pro Publica reported this week.

Miller, 41, died astatine location aft taking termination medicine erstwhile she became pregnant. Relatives accidental she declined to spell to the infirmary to question attraction for fearfulness of being criminally charged nether the law.

The authorities sheet besides called Miller’s decease “preventable.”

Democrats judge abortion rights is simply a cardinal contented for them successful the 2024 predetermination and Harris has relentlessly pounded Trump connected it.

Democrats person enjoyed an uninterrupted drawstring of wins successful elections wherever termination was a cardinal contented ever since 2022, erstwhile the blimpish Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized termination nationwide.

Voters successful respective states, including reddish states similar Kansas and Ohio, person voted successful favour of termination rights, and respective different states are voting connected akin ballot measures successful November.

Trump has been put connected the antiaircraft by termination rights-related attacks. He has antecedently proudly boasted of appointing the 3 blimpish Supreme Court who overturned Roe.

But helium has precocious stressed that helium believes that laws passed by his Republican allies similar those successful Georgia that prohibition termination aft six weeks of gestation are excessively harsh and besides that helium supports exceptions for rape, incest and the beingness of the mother.

Despite Trump’s assertion that helium has a much mean stance connected abortion, helium inactive says he volition ballot against a Florida ballot measure that would reconstruct termination rights and overturn the Sunshine State’s six-week ban.