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(The Guardian) Vice president slams Supreme Court abortion decision, with national and international impact
Kamala Harris has blamed the rightist US Supreme Court’s gutting of abortion rights for undermining America’s place as a role model for democracy in the world.
The vice president was speaking at a reproductive rights round table in Connecticut a few minutes ago, with local congresswoman Jahana Hayes and Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson and once again excoriated the highest US court for its decision in the Mississippi Dobbs case in June that overturned Roe v Wade.
“You can talk about what it means to be a strong democracy and have that standing to talk about human rights and the rule of law…we were thought of as a role model of democratic principles,” Harris said. “But now the highest court in our land took away a fundamental right from the people of America,” she added.
She pointed out that other world leaders watch everything the US does and the Dobbs decision stokes, she said “my fear that autocratic governments can say to their people ‘you want to be a democracy, look what the US just did,’ so the impact of this quite literally will impact people around the world.”
The US Supreme Court is now dominated by a six-three conservative majority on the nine-judge bench and despite a majority of Americans who are polled saying they support the kind of abortion rights afforded by the Roe ruling in 1973, the court overturned that decision this summer in a shocking blow to reproductive choice.
The vice president also spoke on the topic at an event at the White House yesterday, where she said the decision had created a healthcare crisis in the US.
Kamala Harris has blamed the rightist US Supreme Court’s gutting of abortion rights for undermining America’s place as a role model for democracy in the world.
The vice president was speaking at a reproductive rights round table in Connecticut a few minutes ago, with local congresswoman Jahana Hayes and Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson and once again excoriated the highest US court for its decision in the Mississippi Dobbs case in June that overturned Roe v Wade.
“You can talk about what it means to be a strong democracy and have that standing to talk about human rights and the rule of law…we were thought of as a role model of democratic principles,” Harris said. “But now the highest court in our land took away a fundamental right from the people of America,” she added.
She pointed out that other world leaders watch everything the US does and the Dobbs decision stokes, she said “my fear that autocratic governments can say to their people ‘you want to be a democracy, look what the US just did,’ so the impact of this quite literally will impact people around the world.”
The US Supreme Court is now dominated by a six-three conservative majority on the nine-judge bench and despite a majority of Americans who are polled saying they support the kind of abortion rights afforded by the Roe ruling in 1973, the court overturned that decision this summer in a shocking blow to reproductive choice.
The vice president also spoke on the topic at an event at the White House yesterday, where she said the decision had created a healthcare crisis in the US.
