Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Arizona on Friday after the state Supreme Court earlier this week reinstated a 160-year-old abortion ban and took direct aim at Donald Trump.
“What has happened here in Arizona is a new inflection point. It has demonstrated once and for all that overturning Roe was just the opening act, just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women's rights and freedoms, part of a full-on attack state by state on reproductive freedom,” Harris told the crowd in Tucson.
“And we all must understand who is to blame,” the vice president said. “Former President Donald Trump did this.”
“During his campaign in 2016, Donald Trump said women should be punished for seeking an abortion. Don't forget that. He said women should be punished. As President Donald Trump handpicked three members of the United States Supreme Court who intended for them to overturn Roe, and as he intended, they did. And now, because of Donald Trump, more than 20 states in our nation have bans. Now, because of Donald Trump, one in three women of reproductive age in our country live in a state that has a Trump abortion ban,” Harris continued.
