Posted on 07/09/2022 8:30:28 AM PDT by Morgana
Vice president Kamala Harris responded with an incoherent word salad when asked in an interview whether Democratic presidents and congresses failed by never codifying abortion rights over the nearly 50 years Roe v Wade stood.
'I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled,' Harris said.
Roe v Wade was passed in 1973. Since then Democrats have had 15 congressional majorities, and four presidents.
In the interview with CBS News' Robert Costa, the Vice President also said that congress needs to act and pass a law guaranteeing abortion rights to American women, and that women have been stripped of a 'constitutional right' following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Harris said: 'I think all of us share a deep sense of outrage that the United States Supreme Court took a constitutional right that was recognized, took it from the women of America.'
The vice president continued: 'We are now looking at a case where the government can interfere in what is one of the most intimate and private decisions that someone can make.'
The interview will air on CBS's 'Face the Nation' this Sunday.
On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order designed to help women travel to states where abortions are legal as well as expanding access to abortion pills through the Department of Health and Human Services.
Harris said: 'We also need Congress to act because that branch of government is where we actually codify, which means put into law, the rights that again, we took for granted, but clearly have now been taken from the women of America.'
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“We need to hold each other tight because I know this is a tight community and when tightness counts, you can count on tight communities to be tightly held.” Pretty much her comments at Highland Park outside chicongo after the 7/4 shootings.
This “woman” gives women a bad name. She makes “Karens” the whole world over sound like rocket scientists.
She’s just as dopey as her boss. And she doesn’t have dementia ( far as we know).
If the right can’t be found in the Constitution, wouldn’t it take a Constitutional amendment to make it so?
It is a good thing that 0 spent so much time partying and patting himself on the back for his unearned awards. He could have added one sentence to 0 care to legalize abortion.
Whoops! They forgot to destroy something!
What the supremes have done, unintentionally, is to show the lefties nothing is set in concrete. Things can and will change, with that in mind keep polking the conservative bear.
I am glad it was not settled and was overturned. On the legs up comments …. If democrats believed this was settled why did democrats constantly badger nominees to SC by asking the nominee’s stance on killing a child / children ?
Notice how she just assumes people are stupid.
Yes. But that takes work. It amazing to me that these self appointed elitists who think that they are the smartest people in the room didn’t realize that something that was done by nine people in black robes could be undone by nine other people in black robes.
I thought justices 'decided' or 'ruled' upon the cases brought before them. This 'passed' nonsense makes them sound like unaccountable legislators.
what is she talking about?
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Something about believing about something.
If it is unconstitutional for the Supreme Court to step on states rights in the area of abortion then it is unconstitutional for Congress to do so as well. If they pass a law taking away the states’ right to control or prohibit abortion it will be ruled unconstitutional.
I think she had to look up the word “codify” and was just repeating what she saw. At least she did not say the word, spell it, and say it again.
Willie Brown surely did not dated her for her deep intellectual thoughts!
[[I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled]]
Like slavery was “settled”? Things change kamala, and they have changed for the better!
You are misreading what the SC said. They simply stated that this issue is up to the elected representatives of the people and not the courts to decide since the Constitution is silent on the issue.
For now the issue will be decided on a state by state basis, but were congress to pass a law protecting it at the federal level, I have no doubt the court would uphold such a law.
This court time and time again is trying to force congress to take back power it gave to the courts and federal agencies. It will not over turn congress when it stated it thinks this is an issue to be solved by it.
https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1540678426100527107?s=21
This is a hilarious take on kamala
She’s confused. And so is she.
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