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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Harris really should take speech-making lessons from Al Sharpton. Then she could up her game and say clever things like:
“But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.”
Al Sharpton (2011)
As a side note, it’s a shame Johnny Carson is no longer on the air. He would have had fun with Biden’s and Harris’s stupidity. Carson was an equal-opportunity comic. Unfortunately, no one like Carson exists today.
For best results, toss that word salad with a handful of Dunning-Kruger croutons.
She knows her audience....
The Supreme Court has just said this is a state matter.
The federal government has no say in it.
Stop. Period.
I suspect the reason that the left never chose to make a federal law that would legalize abortion in every state is that politically it would open a pandora's box for them. Any law they passed could subsequently be amended, and then it would apply nationwide. That would lead to a federal level law which would end up restricting abortions much more than they are restricted in liberal states.
She should do a Jocelyn Elder and advocate for oral sex as a contraceptive . It’s one area in which she’s qualified to speak.
I doubt it. Would the claim "interstate commerce".
Some things are not interstate commerce.
Abortion is likely to be one of those.
It’s getting to the point I can’t even figure out what she’s TRYING to say anymore.
It’s like there is a
random word generator salad shooter
in her mouth.
Kinda like the acid overdosed homeless mental out patient shouting at a stray dog in the wall Mart parking lot.
Tucker Carlson would characterize this as ‘word salad’.....
They gambled that by having the supreme court invent a new civil right, conservatives would respect court precedent. Funny thing is, they actually did. The Mississippi law being challenged actually respected the first trimester of Roe v. Wade and more . . . but didn't go as far as you can kill children up to the moment of birth and maybe even afterward that liberal courts expanded upon.
Jocelyn Elders. Now there’s a hilarious “blast from the past.”
“Every chow, a loved and wanted chow.” Heh. Willie should have given her the Moms Mabley award.
Nor can Republicans say why they didn't even attempt to introduce, and pass election reform laws to protect people's ballots from fraud, in the 20 years since Gore tried to steal the 2000 election. They had plenty of time to attempt it, during the sessions they had the majority, and a Republican President in the White House. They never even tried.
If something is determined to be out of federal hands by SCOTUS, then codifying it federally via congress becomes unconstitutional. It seems progressives feel that they can violate law as long as they feel they have good intentions. Well, wrong. States (which refers to a country) have authority when the federal govt doesn’t, as per the constitution. I know, the constitution is a white supremacist document that only allows freedom across the board. Progressives want total submission to their whims. Used to be called Marxism/Communism.
Right On!
Kamala, Did not Ruth Bader Ginsburg make it pretty clear that Roe Vs Wade was built on shaky ground?
IMO they were cowards who preferred to let the court take the heat.
Regardless of what polling on the issue says. Supporting abortion is a losing issue for most politicians in most areas, especially in the house.
The part she was smart enough, for once, to not say out loud: Access to abortion makes a dandy bludgeon. If it had been codified long ago, it would be harder for Deep State to take away.
Note to prochoicers: If Deep State can blackmail into continuing to vote for them using this, Deep State won’t stop at abortion access.
If you give in, access to abortion will be the least of your problems.
Plus, if they need a cover for the next election steal, this makes a good one.
Rambling even for Harris.
I do believe... the passage of time.... our priorities are our priorities.... we are doing what we are doing and will keep doing.... When will we be spared this beyotch?!
Again I ask myself, how did she get through law school? And then pass the bar?!
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