The vice president had prescheduled remarks with pro-abortion rights group EMILY's List.
Women in almost half the country could see their access to abortion severely limited, Harris said Tuesday night, if Roe v. Wade is overturned. In light of the draft opinion, Harris acknowledged the attendees in the room have been on the frontlines for the fight for many years but warned there was"nothing hypothetical about this moment."
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Emily's List National Conference and Gala, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Washington."Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women. Well we say, how dare they?" Harris told the cheering crowd.
"It has never been more clear which party wants to expand our rights, and which party wants to restrict them," Harris told the room, vowing Democrats are"not going back." She concluded by calling on Democrats to"fight with everything we have got." Harris was among several Democratic leaders to rally the crowd Tuesday night. Stacey Abrams, who is running for Georgia governor, the event as well. She gave an impassioned speech that highlighted her childhood in Mississippi and having to evolve on the issue of abortion.
Abrams blasted the leaked draft opinion, saying"the abomination of that weak opinion is coming to find every one of us, and we've got to be ready to fight back."The Battle Over Abortion
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