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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On the campaign trail, one issue Vice President Kamala Harris leaned into was abortion rights. |
| 0:11.5 | And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom as president of the United |
| 0:19.8 | States, I will proudly sign it into law. |
| 0:24.2 | Harris was very articulate spokeswoman for these women |
| 0:27.6 | who had not been able to get care for women who were sort of outraged |
| 0:30.9 | the rollback of their rights. |
| 0:32.8 | That's our colleague Laura Casisto. |
| 0:35.2 | She says that the Harris campaign hoped abortion rights would energize voters |
| 0:39.1 | to come out and vote blue. They spent big on ad buys across swing states, emphasizing why |
| 0:45.4 | nationwide access to abortion should be restored. One of the ads, certainly one of the toughest |
| 0:50.4 | ads that they had, was with a woman named Hadley Duval in Kentucky. And the ad opens, |
| 0:57.0 | and she is making breakfast for herself. And she tells this story about being sexually abused |
| 1:04.2 | by her stepfather until she got pregnant at the age of 12. I didn't know what it meant to be |
| 1:10.2 | pregnant at all. |
| 1:11.8 | But I had options. |
| 1:14.5 | Because Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, |
| 1:17.9 | girls and women all over the country |
| 1:20.1 | have lost the right to choose. |
| 1:23.4 | Even for rape or incest. |
| 1:26.7 | Donald Trump did this. He took away our- |
| 1:29.9 | Trump appointed three conservative justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And for Harris, |
| 1:36.0 | that was the message that they were really trying to get across. So whatever Trump might say |
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