Vice President Harris on Wednesday criticized former President Trump in Florida, a state the Biden campaign is trying to greenlight after the state’s six-week abortion ban went into effect.
“As of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with less reproductive freedom than they did last night. This is the new reality under Trump’s abortion ban,” Harris said. He spoke at an election rally.
“Starting this morning, women in Florida will be subject to an abortion ban so extreme that it applies before many women even know they’re pregnant. Incidentally, this is because the extremists who wrote this ban said they wanted to protect women’s bodies. It shows that they either don’t know how it works or just don’t care,” she added.
The law took effect after the Florida Supreme Court ruled in early April that a six-week abortion ban was approved by the state Legislature. Later, the Biden campaign announced that it would focus on Florida, President Trump’s new home state.
Victory in the state will be a tough battle, but Democrats hope a new state law will give them a boost on the abortion issue on the November ballot.
“Donald Trump may be taking Florida for granted. It’s in your power to send Joe Biden and me back to the White House,” Harris said. “Today I ask — Floridians, are you ready to make your voice heard?”
Harris added a personal story to her remarks, revealing that a high school friend of hers had been living with her family after Harris told her that her stepfather was sexually abusing her.
“The idea that someone who survives a crime of physical violence, physical violation, does not have the power to decide what happens to their body next is immoral,” she said. “She does not have to abandon her own faith or her deeply held beliefs to agree that her government should not tell her what to do.”
Biden campaign A video has been released Earlier Wednesday, he criticized President Trump’s recent comments. time interviewIn it, he said it should be up to each state to decide whether to monitor women’s pregnancies and whether to prosecute women who undergo pregnancy surgery.
In her remarks, Harris brought up remarks made in an interview with Time.
“Floridians, the contrast in this election could not be clearer. Basically, under Donald Trump, it would be a given that women would be surveilled and punished by the government. Meanwhile, Joe “Biden and I have different views. We believe the government should never intervene between women and doctors,” she said.
He also warned against a second term for Trump, saying his allies in Congress are pushing for a nationwide abortion ban.
“Right now Mr. Trump wants us to believe he won’t sign a national ban. Well, I say enough gaslighting, enough gaslighting, enough gaslighting,” Harris said. Ta. “Everyone knows that if Donald Trump got the chance, he would sign a nationwide abortion ban.”
She also accused President Trump of gaslighting in Arizona earlier this month, days after the state Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law that made abortion a felony.
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