During a visit to Plainfield, Illinois on Friday, the vice president was forced to change her remarks from highlighting the administration’s expansion of maternal healthcare to responding to the issued opinion removing privacy rights that protected women’s right to an abortion.
Here is what that ruling means: For almost 50 years, we have discussed what Roe v. Wade safeguards. We can only discuss what Roe v. Wade protected as of this very moment. To a crowd gathering at the Plainfield YMCA, Harris remarked, “Past tense.”
This is a catastrophe in health care, she declared.
Understand that millions of American women will go to bed tonight without having access to the medical and reproductive care they had this morning, Harris continued.
Without having 50 years of the same reproductive or medical care as their mothers and grandmothers.
Shortly after President Joe Biden spoke to the nation about the choice and clearly blamed his predecessor Donald Trump, the vice president made his remarks.
Biden described it as “a profoundly serious occasion” and a “sad day for the court and the country” during remarks in the White House’s Cross Hall.
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States explicitly revoked a constitutional privilege it had previously upheld for the American people.
They just took it away, not limited it. According to Biden, it has never been done to a right that is so crucial to so many Americans. But they succeeded.
Let’s be clear: after Roe, the lives and health of women in this country are now in danger.
Biden emphasized how conservative judges, including those chosen by President Richard Nixon, determined the Roe case and defended the right to an abortion in other instances over the years.
The decision to tip the balances of justice and take away a basic right for women in this nation was made primarily by three justices named by one president, Donald Trump, according to Biden.
A woman might be forced to carry her rapist’s child or the child who is the “consequence of incest,” according to Biden, who said that the rules taking effect in the states are “so harsh.”
Biden referred to several of the 1800s laws that were cited in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, saying that “the court is actually pushing America back 150 years.”
He said, “It really stuns me.”
Harris concurred with her number one, stating that the decision reverses the nation’s progress.
She stated in her remarks that “our nation’s strength has always been that we go forward.”
“Today, I call on everyone to unite in support of one of the most fundamental beliefs and principles that has persisted for generations… to uphold the right to privacy as well as independence, liberty, and self-determination.
Harris warned that other privacy concerns may be at risk in the future by pointing out that the ruling is not limited to the abortion debate.
The vice president added, “This opinion also suggests, when you read it, that abortion is not profoundly ingrained in our nation’s history.” “Today’s verdict on that notion puts into question other rights that we thought were established by holding that it is not firmly entrenched in our history. such as the right to interracial marriage, the right to same-sex marriage, and the access to birth control.
“The expansion of freedom has been the main desire of our country.” However, it is obvious that the spread of freedom is not inescapable. It is not something that happens by accident.