Harris: Trump spreads “lies” and insults on abortion

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Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of spreading lies and “insulting the women of America” ​​with his policies and statements on abortion in a heated exchange with her Republican rival during the televised presidential debate on Tuesday.

“You're going to hear a bunch of lies,” Vice President Harris said, then rejected Trump's claim that Americans on both sides of the political divide wanted the 1973 ruling enshrining the constitutional right to abortion to be overturned by the Supreme Court.

Vice President Harris accused the former Republican president of supporting “Trump's abortion bans in states across the country that do not even make exceptions for rape and incest” and called on Americans to “understand what that means.”

“The survivor of physical assault has no right to decide what happens next with his or her body,” she said.

“You want to talk about what people wanted: pregnant women who want to carry their pregnancy to term, who have a miscarriage, who are denied care in the emergency room because health care workers are afraid they'll go to jail, and she bleeds to death in a car in the parking lot,” she continued, turning to Trump and pointing at him as he stared straight ahead with a stony expression.

“You didn't want that,” Harris continued. “Your husband didn't want that. A 12 or 13 year old incest survivor being forced to carry a pregnancy to term? You don't want that.”

She had previously stated: “Donald Trump personally selected three members of the Supreme Court of the United States with the intention that they would override the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they have done exactly what he intended.”

She reiterated her promise to reinstate Roe if she wins the White House.

Trump, for his part, continued to insist that “every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, every liberal conservative, they all wanted this issue to be brought back to the States.”

He stressed that it took “courage” to do so and reiterated that Democrats would allow babies to be executed after birth, even though moderators of the ABC News debate stated that this was not true. Harris said the comment was “an insult to the women of America.”

When the moderator asked him about a statement made by his running mate, JD Vance, who said Trump would not sign a national abortion ban even if it landed on his desk as president, he responded by obfuscating the statement and attacking Harris over her student loans.

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