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.”
They should have brought the Planned Parenthood Spay and Neutering Bus with them.
So Princess Hadley thinks America should go full Communist with Santa Muerte and Tiny Tim because she was raped and made pregnant by her stepfather. That’s a dumber than sh*t reason to go vote.
Wow! Win a Meat and Creep. What a deal they’ve got going. I would have thought they at least would raffle off a coupon for a free abortion.
It says something when they use the term “reproductive freedom” rather than saying the abortion word. Everyone has the freedom to reproduce and that doesn’t involve abortion. Killing a child in the womb is not reproductive freedom, it is abortion. Yet, they don’t want to use that disgusting word.
Odd, they chose not to call it “Baby Killing Stops”.
Thank you!
Harris-Walz bus tour promoting reproductive freedom.
In can see the bus sign now two trees with no branches.
Should be a tour of the dangers of inbreeding.
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