Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday continued to hammer Arizona’s new abortion ban and former President Trump’s function in overturning Roe vs. Wade throughout a shock look in Century Metropolis.
“Right here’s the factor about what they’re doing and the cruelty of it: No exception in some states even for rape and incest. You’re saying to a survivor of against the law of violence to their physique, a violation to their physique, that they haven’t any proper to decide about what occurs to their physique subsequent,” Harris stated. “That’s immoral.”
Harris made the remarks on the Energy Management and Affect of Black Ladies luncheon, the place Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) was being honored. As she was answering a query about abortion rights, Butler paused to introduce “one in every of our largest champions on this motion” and “one in every of my greatest buddies,” as Harris emerged onstage from the wings.
The vp has been a vocal drive for the Biden administration on the problem since Arizona’s Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday reinstated a regulation from 1864 — many years earlier than Arizona turned a state — banning abortions besides when the mom’s life is in danger. Her feedback Saturday reiterated what she stated Friday in Tucson and what’s anticipated to be a serious theme of President Biden’s reelection marketing campaign.
“There is no such thing as a ambiguity about who’s accountable. The previous president Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the US Supreme Courtroom with the intention that they might undo Roe, and so they did precisely as he supposed,” Harris stated.
“And now he walks round speaking about, ‘Properly, you realize, the states can do what they wish to do,’” she continued. “Properly, have a look at what the states are doing. The states are passing Trump abortion bans. So we’re not going to fall for the ‘okey-doke.’ We’re not going to be gaslit about what’s at play and who’s accountable.”
The earlier night time, Harris headlined a fundraiser at “Household Man” creator Seth MacFarlane’s Spanish revival mansion in Beverly Hills. About $1.5 million was raised for the Biden Victory Fund on the occasion, which was attended by 30 folks, together with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
“After I was requested to host this occasion, I instantly agreed, as a result of I noticed if it’s at my home, I can drink as a lot as I would like,” MacFarlane stated. “I’m not going to get a DUI on the way in which to mattress.”
He then turned to Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who was in attendance.
“Anyway, now I needed to get all the things proper to this introduction. So I practiced the way to pronounce your identify. Is it Doug?” MacFarlane stated, a reference to some Republicans’ refusal to correctly pronounce Harris’ first identify.
Harris and Emhoff are anticipated to spend Sunday at their Brentwood house earlier than the vp heads to Nevada on Monday.