Harris-Walz bus tour promoting reproductive freedom stops in Harrisburg

Pennlive ^ | 18 September A.D. 2024 | Jan Murphy

[lightman]

A blue bus bearing the words “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” pulled up behind the Pennsylvania Capitol on Wednesday with a message that access to contraception, in vitro fertilization and abortion care hangs in the balance in this presidential election.

Among the supporters of Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the campaign bus was 22-year-old Kentuckian Hadley Duvall.

She spoke at the Democratic National Convention and has appeared in Harris campaign ads sharing her story about being raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 12.

Duvall recalled standing in the bathroom doing a pregnancy test and having no idea what it meant while her stepfather stood on the other side of the door telling her she had options.

“That’s the only thing in that situation that I had to hold on to. That’s the only thing that gave me hope of making it out of that situation,” Duvall said. “But now women and girls across our country do not have that to hold on to and that’s because Donald Trump stripped it right from them.”

Harris has made reproductive freedom a focal point in her campaign, saying as president, she would reinstate the standards of Roe v. Wade and contrasts that with her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, who she claims would enforce a national abortion ban.

The Trump campaign’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt refutes that claim.

“President Trump has long been consistent in supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion and has been very clear that he will not sign a federal ban when he is back in the White House,” according to Leavitt’s emailed statement.

She also said Trump supports universal access to contraception and IVF.

But those on the five-city national bus tour hold a different view of what a Trump presidency would mean for women.

“We cannot trust Donald Trump. We know Trump is proudly responsible for every single abortion ban across the country,” Duvall said. “When I walk into that voting booth on Nov. 5, I will vote for the younger me who deserves so much better but deserves those choices that she had.”

Joining Duvall at the news conference, along with three Democratic state lawmakers, including Dauphin County’s Rep. Patty Kim, was Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey.

Healey gave an impassioned speech condemning Trump for putting justices on the Supreme Court who overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

That ruling “stripped away freedom from girls and women across this country,” Healey said.

Harris, on the other hand, “will always defend women, defend freedom, defend our health care providers and defend and ensure access to abortion, safeguarding our privacy protections across this country.”

Making a personal pitch to Pennsylvanians whose votes will likely determine the winner in the presidential contest, Healey said, “You are the ones who hold in your hands the power to decide whether or not the Hadley Duvalls of the world are going to have the future that they deserve. You’re the ones who are going to safeguard our freedoms, so please get on the bus with us.”

[lightman]

Hadley Duvall, a 22-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather 10 years ago, spoke in support of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris during a stop in Harrisburg on Wednesday as part of the campaign's reproductive freedom bus tour. She was joined by (from left) Rep. Mary Isaacson, D-Philadelphia; Sandra Thompson of the Black Women for Harris; Rep. Bridget Kosierowski, D-Lackawanna County; Rep. Patty Kim, D-Dauphin County; and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey. Sept. 18, 2024 Jan Murphy

[lightman]

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[farmguy]

Crowd photos?

[butlerweave]

Murdering Children is not Reproductive Freedom

[know.your.why]

Reproductive Freedom...freedom to f**k anything anytime with no concern for consequence or life.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“We cannot trust Donald Trump.”

That’s rich coming from the least trustworthy, most flip-flopping candidate ever.

[Steely Tom]

I got served a Walz-Harris fundraising ad just an hour ago.

They were offering a special deal: send them a contribution of "even just a few dollars" and be entered into a drawing to ... are you ready for this? No, I mean, really, you better sit down ... meet Kamala Harris and Ted Walz, in person, for real, on the road, at one of their upcoming campaign stops!!

Just thought that was interesting.

[jerod]

The ‘Reproductive Freedom Tour’... Seriously?

That is as lame as lame gets. Kamala is headed for a major defeat in November.

[knarf]

The Molech tour

[Mark]

A blue bus bearing the words “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom and killing babies” pulled up behind the Pennsylvania Capitol.( it could happen).

[toddausauras]

Women, stupid women, will be the death of us all.

[No name given]

Exactly! I’ve got a better idea: let’s stop promoting perverted, anything goes promiscuous selfish hedonistic sexual degeneracy!

[No name given]

Here’s hoping!

[Belteshazzar]

Exceptions should make the rule ... yeah, right. Kamala and Tim’s party is the party of death.

[rktman]

Hmmmmmm! Lack of access? Odd since there a million+ abortions, uh I mean reproductive rights actions, in 2023. Lying mofos.

[packagingguy]

The short yellow school bus tour!

[gundog]

Who’s Ted Walz? I’d probably rather meet him than Timmy.

[Sacajaweau]

It's a state issue and has always been a state issue. Stop making it a Federal Issue.

There is no doubt...a baby in the womb is a human being and is entitled to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

And there is nothing in the Bill of Rights that entitles anyone to kill babies.

[Fledermaus]

Why do pro choice idiots never choose not to get pregnant? It’s pretty easy.

[BitWielder1]

Not reproducing is reproductive freedom?
Abortion is not for women's freedom, it's for protecting the irresponsible, the rapists, traffickers and the incestuous.