Pro-life groups slam Harris for uncompromising abortion position: 'Christians are not welcome'

Pro-life groups are livid astatine Vice President Kamala Harris aft she took an uncompromising presumption connected termination rights astatine likelihood with galore faith-based wellness attraction providers.

Harris told NBC's Hallie Jackson connected Tuesday that she does not enactment spiritual exemptions for termination and would not marque immoderate concessions connected that issue, if elected, nether a perchance divided government. 

"I don’t deliberation we should beryllium making concessions erstwhile we’re talking astir a cardinal state to marque decisions astir your ain body," Harris said successful the interview. 

Christian and pro-life leaders said her presumption is hostile toward believing doctors and Catholic hospitals, who presumption termination arsenic the sinful taking of guiltless life. They questioned whether she would respect law protections for spiritual Americans if she wins the presidency. 

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NBC's Hallie Jackson, left, interviews Vice President Kamala Harris connected Oct. 22, 2024. (NBC News)

"Kamala Harris' comments present amusement that she believes the First Amendment nary longer applies to radical of faith, including Catholics," said Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital.

"She is mounting the signifier to enactment Catholic doctors successful jail, to portion aesculapian licenses from Catholic physicians and to unopen down Catholic wellness attraction arsenic we cognize it." 

Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, a elder chap with The Catholic Association, said Harris "should clarify, and quickly, whether fixed the accidental she would unit Americans who entity connected spiritual oregon conscience grounds, to enactment successful abortion" 

"Sadly, it would not beryllium the archetypal clip Harris has utilized her governmental powerfulness to trample the rights of spiritual Americans," she added. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN Presidential Town Hall astatine Sun Center Studios connected Oct. 23, 2024 successful Aston, Pennsylvania. (Getty Images)

The Biden-Harris medication has travel nether occurrence from Christians and pro-life groups for filing lawsuits against activists who prayed extracurricular of termination clinics nether the Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances Act. Activist Lauren Handy, with Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, was handed a astir five-year situation condemnation successful May for organizing 1 specified protestation extracurricular a session successful Washington, D.C., successful 2020.

CatholicVote and others person accused the Biden-Harris medication of "weaponizing" the Justice Department against termination opponents. The Harris run did not respond to a petition for comment.

In interviews, Harris has refused to accidental whether determination is immoderate restriction connected abortion that she supports. When Jackson repeatedly pressed her connected whether determination were immoderate compromises she mightiness enactment to walk authorities to grow termination access, Harris refused to "engage successful hypotheticals." 

"Let's commencement with the cardinal fact. A basal state has been taken from the women of America, the state to marque decisions astir their ain body. And that cannot beryllium negotiable, which is that we request to enactment backmost successful the protections of Roe v Wade, and that is it," Harris said. 

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Arizona residents rally for termination rights connected a thoroughfare country Tuesday connected the heels of the Arizona Supreme Court determination enacting an 1864 instrumentality banning abortion, connected April 16, 2024 successful Phoenix. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The vice president has supported authorities successful Congress that would codify the Supreme Court's present defunct sentiment successful Roe v. Wade, which would warrant national protections for termination entree and override astir each termination restrictions enacted by pro-life lawmakers astatine the authorities level nationwide.  

William Wolfe, laminitis and enforcement manager of the Center for Baptist Leadership, said Harris' presumption makes "crystal clear" that "Christians are not invited successful the modern, pro-abortion Democrat Party." 

"Frankly, I'm not amazed to larn that a Kamala medication would shred the First Amendment and unit Christian doctors and hospitals to supply abortions due to the fact that ‘expanding termination access’ is simply a cardinal tenant of their progressive ‘religion.’ There is thing that the Democrats worth much than the ‘freedom’ to extremity innocent, pre-born quality beingness successful the womb with nary ineligible restrictions oregon repercussions," said Wolfe.  

"Her fanatical commitment to termination entree and disregard for the First Amendment isn't a bug – it's a diagnostic of her platform. I neglect to spot however immoderate Christian tin enactment specified a barbaric and unconstitutional campaigner successful bully faith." 

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Public sentiment polls show, and governmental analysts agree, that the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination is connected a trajectory to beryllium 1 of the closest successful decades. Seven battleground states volition find the winner, and those states are expected to beryllium decided by slim margins – wherever enactment from important elector blocks, similar Catholics, could precise good marque the difference.

"The Catholic ballot volition beryllium critical, arsenic it has been successful each predetermination implicit the past 40 years," said Burch. 

"The Democratic Party has gone from safe, ineligible and uncommon to present let's unit Catholic hospitals to execute abortions, oregon we'll propulsion you successful jail. That's rather the shift, and I deliberation voters admit this arsenic a span excessively far." 

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Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader, an Iowa-based socially blimpish group, said helium has "never seen an predetermination that represents a bigger opposition of worldview" than the 2024 statesmanlike contest.

"You can't archer a doc my alleged ‘right’ to termination trumps your close of conscience, truthful I tin unit you to perpetrate what you judge is murder. That's not the America I grew up in, not the America our Founders would person ever permitted, but that's the Kamala Harris America," helium said. 

"The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the warrant of spiritual liberty, is connected the ballot. Choose well, America."

Harris volition question to Texas connected Friday, a authorities her run has called "ground zero of Trump's termination bans." She volition be an lawsuit successful Houston with women "who person faced the nonstop impacts of these utmost laws" and volition talk astir the "harm Donald Trump's termination bans person caused crossed the nation."