Appearing at a campaign event in the highly targeted electoral battleground state of Georgia this week, Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris tore into Republican presidential pick Donald Trump for expressing pride in the U.S. Supreme Court having overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Before that case’s undoing, the ruling provided decades of national, legal protections for reproductive health care. In its absence, legislators across the country were given the opportunity to pursue their own agendas on abortion, and many millions of Americans now live under far-reaching restrictions with often few exceptions. Three of Trump’s nominees to the nation’s highest court were on the bench when the Justices reversed Roe.
“This is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis,” Harris told the crowd. “He brags about overturning Roe v. Wade. In his own words, quote, “I did it, and I’m proud to have done it,” he says. He is proud. Proud that women are dying? Proud that doctors and nurses could be thrown in prison for administering care? Proud that young women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers? How dare he? How dare he?”
Trump also claims that there is actually widespread support for what the Supreme Court did to Roe, which a slew of available indications point to not actually being the case.
Georgia was won by Democratic contender Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election — breaking a long streak of Republican victories in the state in general elections amid a race for president. And Democrats are clearly hoping to replicate that success after additional wins for the party in U.S. Senate races in Georgia, where both of the state’s Senators are now Democrats. Harris has already campaigned in the state repeatedly since kicking off her White House bid in July.