After a leaked draft opinion confirmed the Superb Court docket poised to overturn the landmark abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned it used to be “time to battle for ladies.”
In a commentary on Wednesday — an afternoon after Politico first reported (and the Superb Court docket later showed) the draft opinion — Harris wrote that “fighters of Roe need to punish girls and remove their rights to make selections about their very own our bodies.”
“Republican legislators in states around the nation are weaponizing the usage of the regulation towards girls,” the vice chairman mentioned, caution that no longer simplest the correct to abortion however the “proper to privateness” for all American citizens could be “weakened” if the bulk opinion leaked within the draft had been to carry.
“That is the time to battle for ladies and for our nation with the whole lot now we have,” Harris mentioned.
It’s price noting that the draft determination isn’t ultimate and that abortion stays felony in all 50 states for now.
“We all know that our maximum inclined communities will undergo the disproportionate brunt of any determination to limit and deny get admission to to abortion care—in particular Black, brown, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and low-income other folks,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) mentioned in a commentary that referred to as for codifying abortion protections in federal regulation. “We should legislate as though our lives rely on it, as a result of they do.”