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.”
I do have quite a few questions (offered respectfully, of course.)
Funny how they want their reproductive freedom, but somehow we don’t have any paying freedom.
PURE EVIL!!
They dig up these people for what...to say...hey...I had a good reason to kill that baby. Why doesn't it ring right?
Is HADLEY DUVALL’S STEPFATHER IN PRISON FOR RAPING A 12 YEAR OLD??? I WANT TO KNOW!!
The DEMOCRAT PARTY is the PARTY OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION! WAR AND DEATH! THEY LOVE BOTH!
So. A Harris ‘bus tour’ is when she gets helicoptered into a pull off several miles out of the ‘next town,’ downs half a bottle of wine, etc. then gets helicoptered out afterwards till the next time she needs that “good ole USA bus” for her BS.
My Tagline.
Good question.
Wish a REPORTER would find that answer!!
The girl didn’t have to keep the baby after it was born. Why does the baby get a death sentence for what the stepfather did?
Love how these scum trot out a girl like this, when the abortion crowd could give 2 sh!ts about her typically, except during an election year.
Everything I’ve ever seen says 3% of all abortion are rape, incest, or life of the mother related—-97% elective birth control, and they trot out this girl as the face of this issue
DEMOCRATS ARE SCUMBAGS!!!
They lie and gaslight every waking moment!!
A person is free to reproduce all they want....just accept the responsibility.
Spay and neuter your liberals. American babies shouldn’t have to suffer because some bimbo turd roller thinks she has
“rights” to kill babies.
Live And Let Live but alas the political machine demands resentment and rage to extract votes.
“It’s settled law” as the Roe vs. Wade lovers used to say.
They didn’t bring the Abortmobile from Chicago?
people that post in all caps are immediately ignored in today’s society... we’re not deaf... yelling through the keyboard is rude and unproductive...
“Reproductive Freedom”
They really do turn a phrase, don’t they.
Trump has to pound on this and say “How stupid is it to your number one campaign issue women’s reproductive freedom when the office you are running for HAS ZERO jurisdiction over that. It is a State’s issue. PERIOD. She is peeing on your leg and telling you that its raining”
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