Kamala Harris said what Biden couldn't about abortion

[RandySF]

“Let’s understand how we got here,” Kamala Harris began on Tuesday night, and thus launched three minutes of the most searing defense of reproductive rights we have ever seen in a presidential debate.

Moderators asked the candidates each a question related to abortion. Donald Trump used his time to rewrite history, repeatedly claiming that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was a universally beloved triumph that “everyone wanted.” Harris responded with an incredulity that read as wholly sincere.

“You want to talk about this is what people wanted?” she demanded, wrinkling her brow and looking not at the camera but directly at the man whose appointed Supreme Court justices had voted to overturn Roe. “Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term, suffering a miscarriage, being denied care because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail? And she’s bleeding out in a car in a parking lot? She didn’t want that. Her husband didn’t want that. A 12 or 13-year-old survivor of incest forced to carry a pregnancy to term? They don’t want that.”

She spoke, in a voice dripping with disgust, about the plight faced by rape victims currently living in states with abortion restrictions: “The survivor of a crime of a violation of her body does not have the right to make the decision about what happens to her body next? That is immoral.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/09/11/kamala-harris-vs-trump-on-abortion/

[Doodley]

1. Yes, she was the most passionate and emotional at that point. She showed a lot of empathy. That was very

damaging for Trump.

[RandySF]

2. I've never heard any politician

lay out the case against the MAGA anti-choice agenda in a debate as well as she did.

[Arthur_Frain]

3. Best moment she had

Hands down.

[JI7]

4. Watching her campaign women and girls are able to talk to her

in ways they might not with a man. Even if the man was right on the issues and supportive. She is able to connect in a more personal way. We have certain images of what we expect from a President but having a woman president might get us to expect and demand other qualities.

I'm not saying men can't provide this but it's more about what we are used to and being open to other qualities that should matter. And for those that think these things should matter they would never support someone like Trump.

[mucholderthandirt]

5. I think Biden believes the same, and would say it, but coming from a man, it's different.

A man isn't facing these laws in the same way a woman does, no matter how much he loves her, supports her. Having a strong woman speak with power, that makes a difference. It makes people sit up and listen. It makes us know that we are right, that we are the ones to control our bodies, not some man who claims religious right but doesn't behave as his Jesus demands him to do.

Let's introduce a law that affects a man in the same way, see how he feels. Oh, wait. That's not possible. No man is ever going to be forced into a vasectomy. No man is ever going to be denied erectile disfunction drugs. Pretty soon, no man is going to be forced to support that baby a woman is forced to birth.

No man, no matter how good he is, no matter how supportive he is of women, can ever know what it really feels like to be told you have no right to even live, that you should die with your dead fetus, you should bleed out when nature takes your fetus out of you. Just. Because. You. Are. A. Woman.