Posted on 09/15/2024 12:00:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Among the many critical issues at stake in the 2024 election, one will be central for many Americans: Whom do you trust to make medical decisions — women and their doctors, or Donald Trump and JD Vance?
Vice President Kamala Harris cast the issue of abortion in stark relief in her first debate with former President Trump last week, striking a chord with voters across political lines. Ms. Harris’s answers on abortion emerged as her strongest moments onstage in a strong night for her overall — and provided a glimpse of a winning strategy for this election.
That involves the Harris-Walz ticket turning the volume up to 11 on abortion. Ms. Harris, Gov. Tim Walz and their campaign surrogates must keep emphasizing — on the stump, in ads and at every chance they get — how Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance are impossible to trust on these issues.
They must refuse to let Mr. Trump and other Republicans suggest that leaving decisions about abortion up to the states is a benign proposition and continue to point to the wide-ranging impact of abortion bans on pregnancy care, miscarriage treatment and training opportunities for an entire generation of doctors.
Ms. Harris would do well, even, to devote an entire speech to the issue, laying out her plan to take action in support of abortion rights, with or without Congress.
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“Take it to 11”!?!?
Will it be mandatory if she is elected?
I like what Matt Gaetz said. The majority of women who will vote on the abortion issue would never have to worry about it since they would be hard pressed to find anyone to sleep with them let alone impregnate them.
Abortion on unrealized gestation.
It’s all about murdering babies to the far-left Nazis. Josef Mengele would be proud of them.
I find it very disturbing that this childless woman is so fixated with killing the children of others.
Just as I figured. “Ma” Richards’ blithering Karen idiot that she forgot to abort.
Never forget that seven democrat lawyers, fifty-one years ago, caused this horrid coarsening of American society from which I doubt it will ever recover.
Abortion is almost certainly likely to remain legal in Canada for years to come.
Abortion is almost certainly likely to remain legal for the rest of your lifetime in New York, Maryland, Illinois, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and California.
WIKI
On April 10, 1970, the New York Senate passed a law decriminalizing abortion in most cases. Republican Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signed the bill into law the next day. At the time, New York State was a Republican “trifecta”, meaning both chambers of the legislature and the governorship were Republican-controlled. The 1970 law did several things. First, it added a consent provision requiring a physician to obtain the woman’s consent before performing an abortion. Second, it permitted physician-provided elective abortion services within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, or to preserve the woman’s life. Third, it permitted a woman, when acting upon the advice of a duly licensed physician, to perform an “abortional act” on herself within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, or to preserve her life. New York was the second state, after Hawaii, to enact landmark abortion law legislation. Unlike Hawaii, however, New York’s abortion law did not have a 90-day residency requirement.
Between 1970 and 1973, the New York General Assembly attempted to repeal their law that made abortion legal. Governor Rockefeller successfully vetoed the repeal attempt.
In 2012, New York City reported abortions (31,328) outnumbered live births (24,758) for black children. Black and Hispanic abortions combined (54,245) account for 73% of the total abortions in the city in 2012, according to a report by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Vital Statistics. In 2013, among white women aged 15–19, there were 2,660 abortions, 5,860 abortions for black women aged 15–19, 4,670 abortions for Hispanic women aged 15–19, and 760 abortions for women of all other races.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_New_York
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