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Will Weissert
Washington (AP) — At Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, then-California State Senator Kamala Harris told the judge that she was a woman. Asked if you are thinking about privacy rights Extended to choosing the Associated Press. Kavanaugh declined to answer.
Now that Judge Kavanaugh is part of the majority of the courts that voted to overturn the Roe v. Wade case, and the senator became vice president, Harris said the court's decision was with her. It warns that it can cause some of the same widespread privacy restrictions. She was warned during those hearings.
Working on this issue with passion related to both her personal and professional backgrounds, Harris has been contraceptive and gay marriage for the past few weeks. In vitro fertilization and voting rights to.
Judge Clarence Thomas has written an opinion agreeing with Law's larger ruling that the High Court should "reconsider" past decisions regarding contraception and access to same-sex marriage, and such concerns. Seems to have verified.
Harris has been the main speaker of the Biden administration on abortion rights since early May, when the leaked draft opinion previewed the invalidation of the Roe v. Wade case. When the final decision was announced last week, she was flying to Illinois for her maternal health event, and still read it in the air — she immediately focused on her planned remarks. Moved to judgment.
This decision questioned other rights we considered resolved, such as the right to use contraception, the right to same-sex marriage, and the right to interracial messages. "Throws," Harris said. She told the audience on Friday that she was in the suburbs of YMCA, which she added would cause a "medical crisis."
President Joe Biden makes a leading statement on access to abortion after ordering her to oversee other annoying issues that went wrong, such as immigration and increased voting rights. What you do may be more suitable for Harris. Drastic legislation on both issues was stalled in Congress, and some supporters urged the Vice President and the White House to say more.
Harris, who symbolically oversees the Senate, did not prevent Republicans from blocking efforts to codify the Roe v. Wade case into federal law before the court ruling overturned it. But the Democrats hope that anger at the issue will rejuvenate their foundations for the November midterm elections, when the party is facing severe headwinds.
After the decision was announced, Harris said that it would be directly linked to the politics in question. With your vote, you can act. And you have the last word.
Harris's office believes that abortion providers are the first to visit the White House after Texas law effectively banned abortions in the state in the fall. I met the patient. She then stated that "full participation of women in our country" was still a goal, not a reality, and emphasized that sexism would continue.
After the Supreme Court's draft opinion was leaked, the Vice President held a virtual discussion with doctors and nurses providing abortion treatment in a state with severe restrictions, and the state's democratic support for fertility. I had a meeting with a lawyer.
Biden also forcibly defended the right to abortion and warned that other rights are now at risk. But as an observant Catholic, he does not always have a strong record on this issue.
Harris, the first female Vice President and former California Supreme Prosecutor, brings her unique personal perspective and legal expertise to the matter.
"Watching a woman fight for another woman is very loyal to the heart of who she is," said Planned Parenthood Federation of America's policies, organizations, and campaigns. Jacqueline Ayers, Senior Vice President, said.
She added that Harris assembled the problem to emphasize "the disparities it creates for black and brown communities, and for those living on low incomes."
Ayers said in a high court proceeding that the Vice President would use her office to listen to women and improve women's health care, perhaps even in ways Biden couldn't. He said he was able to emphasize the method he proposed.
"It's not necessarily a wedge, it's a continuation of someone who really bet a career on the issue of their key and driving force," Ayers said of the difference with Harris. Biden.
Revised United Church of Christ Secretary of Internal Affairs and Communications John Dorhauer attends a recent virtual conference on the right to abortion hosted by Harris, and he is afraid to insist on this issue. Suggested not.
"It's incredibly encouraging to hear it from one of the tallest offices in the country," Dohower said.
However, some anti-abortionists claim that Harris has hurt her cause by equating access to abortion with other more routine medical care.
"She has come to symbolize the absolutism of abortion on the other side," said Susan B. Anthonylist President Marjorie Dannenfelser, who defends women who oppose abortion in politics. Said.
As Senator, Harris introduced a law to improve her maternal health. During the main debate of the Democratic President in 2019, candidate Harris at the time said that abortion was overshadowed by other issues, despite women's rights to procedures that were "fully under attack" even then. He said that he was dropping it, "it's ridiculous."
The Vice President played the most powerful and candid role when she declared the day after the draft opinion was leaked in May. What a dare.
Then she used the next few weeks to undermine the Roe v. Wade case and give it another important privacy right, which is the same theme raised at the Kavanaugh hearing. He insisted that it could be wiped out immediately.
Harris says that if the legislature claims that human life begins with fertilization, many states that move to ban abortion altogether could limit in vitro fertilization. Say there is. She argued that they could ban contraceptive methods such as intrauterine devices and "morning after" pills.
Data collected by law enforcement agencies from millions of women using menstrual cycle tracking apps, or women searching the internet to obtain abortions in other states. The vice president said it could scrutinize.
Also, the ultimate danger is the legalization of gay marriage, and in the states with the strictest abortion laws, there are also past LGBTQ bans that the Supreme Court can revive. He points out that there are many cases. When those rights go down, the debate goes on and the voting rights have the following possibilities: She convened a recent meeting with a privacy expert to discuss this issue.
"The slippery slopes are really slippery," said Jennifer Weisswolf, a woman and democracy fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York, one of the conference attendees. Said. "We are now barreling it straight."
Michelle Goodwin, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, once authorized an effort to limit abortion. As he began to imitate outdated law, he told attendees to prepare for the "arrival of a new Jane Crow." Discrimination against blacks.
Dannenfelser argued that Harris and others were exaggerating, saying that the current Supreme Court "is least likely to do what she says." They believe in the rule of law.
"It aims to scare people and build a coalition on the other side outside the abortion problem," said Dannenfelser.
Harris's office states that she is actually building a coalition, but believes that the impact of the Roe v. Wade case goes far beyond abortion, not just women. Will be one of those who have. To help bring that point back to her home, Harris recently met with a religious leader in Los Angeles, and she said, "Supporting the Roe v. Wade case, and all that means abandon your beliefs. It doesn't mean to do it. "
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