Posted on 09/18/2024 4:04:10 PM PDT by 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.”
Didn’t Trump say in vitro fertilization should be free ?
To show you how strong feminist conditioning is, why would a man be so worried about women’s rights?
A cousin from Nebraska? One who wears a MAGA hat?
When Vietnam casualties mounted, Lyndon B. Johnson was met with people chanting and carrying placards saying:
Hey
Hey
LBJ
How man kids
did you kill today.
I’m a woman and agree wholeheartedly!! I have had so many run ins with my suburban idiotic neighbors and so called friends who hang onto abortion as if it’s the only problem we have in America.
This is the first election where I’ve considered the other side and anyone who voted for them total dumb a$$es.
And i do not hold back on saying that to anyone who is voting for harris.
“you gotta be a real dumba$$ to vote for that lady”.
I hope everyone is doing the same. Shame the other side as often as possible
Lesbians and women with children in this picture want freedom ?
Exactly. What they fail to say is that the vast number of abortions come under the heading of selfishness. I’m murdering my own child b/c having kids is inconvenient, I’d rather have things etc.
Exactly. It’s so fake.
I doubt if they were “brave” enough to take the bus/van that they had at the convention to offer “on the spot” abortions and vasectomies.
Thanks for the correction.
The Supreme Court has ruled on this.
“”Donald Trump stripped it right from them.””
If they want to make spectacles of themselves, don’t you think they’d want to get their facts straight first? Is that too much to ask?
Take it up with the USSC, ladies....and your state legislatures! You’re barking up the wrong tree!
When does the lying stop?
Such BS.
Abortions are legal in all 50 states and more have occurred since Roe was overturned than before.
And its a state issue, not mandated by feds.
They always use exceptions when arguing for the rule.
Needs a bulls eye.
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