Kamala Harris To Women Denied Abortion Care After Roe: 'We See You And You Are Not Alone'

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday delivered a powerful speech on abortion rights — her first address to focus solely on reproductive rights and the dire landscape for pregnant people in a post-Roe v. Wade world since she became the Democratic presidential nominee.

Harris spoke at a rally in Atlanta, where she was surrounded by supporters holding “Trust women” signs and by placards reading, “1 in 3 women lives under a Trump abortion ban,” a reference to states limiting reproductive health care since the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. Harris hosted the event in the wake of devastating reporting from ProPublica about two Georgia women, both Black mothers, who died because they did not receive proper medical treatment after using abortion pills.

“The reality is, for every story we hear of the suffering under Trump abortion bans, there are so many of the stories we’re not hearing,” Harris said, referring to the nearly two dozen states that have enacted abortion restrictions. “Women who are also being made to feel as though they did something wrong … being made as though to feel as though they are criminals, as though they are alone.”

“To those women, to those families, I say on behalf of what I believe we all say: We see you and you are not alone, and we are all here standing with you,” she told the crowd, which gave her a standing ovation.

Harris called Republicans “hypocrites” for enacting abortion bans while ignoring the country’s maternal mortality crisis. So-called maternity care deserts are growing, with 1 in 3 U.S. counties or more than 2.3 million women of reproductive age lacking obstetric care — a partial result of post-Roe abortion bans.

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