VP Kamala Harris Exclusive: When legislation codifying protections of Roe is passed ‘Biden will sign it’

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The abortion rights landscape post the Dobbs decision, one year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is discussed by Vice President Kamala Harris in this exclusive roundtable discussion, "One Year Post-Roe: A ReidOut Special with VP Harris,” featuring Joy Reid and people impacted by Dobbs. "This issue is so fundamentally about freedom... The ability of an individual to make decisions about their own life and literally their own body…,” Vice President Harris tells Joy Reid. “A piece of this underlying it all is, hey--trust women." Listen now to this special edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	It was a moment considered unimaginable in 21st century America.
0:04.8	The U.S. Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional right to abortion.
0:08.7	The vans were immediate, along with the horror stories of shuttered clinics and women denied
0:13.4	emergency medical care.
0:14.6	I'll never forget one of the doctors just ripping off his loves, throwing them at the
0:18.2	trash and saying, I can't help you anymore.
0:20.1	You have to go out of state.
0:22.1	Almost a year later, the landscape of abortion access is even worse.
0:26.3	Republicans remain focused on pushing restrictive laws that Americans overwhelmingly reject.
0:31.6	The body inside of the mom's body is not her body, not her body, not her choice.
0:40.6	The Supreme Court may have empowered the states to reshape abortion law, but reproductive
0:44.9	rights remain a national issue that the Biden-Harris administration and Congress must respond to
0:51.4	to forge a roadmap for the work that lies ahead.
0:54.4	Tonight, from Dallas, in a state considered ground zero in the national fight over abortion
0:59.8	rights, this is One Year Post Row, a readout special with Vice President Kamala Harris.
1:08.6	Hello, and thank you for joining me on this special edition of the readout.
1:13.2	My guest for the hour is Vice President Kamala Harris.
1:17.2	But because this is such an important issue to so many Americans, we also wanted to bring
1:21.9	around this table.
1:23.6	People whose lives and work were directly affected by the elimination of the right to an abortion.
1:29.5	Joining me are Genesis Sanchez, an abortion rights advocate.
1:33.4	Amanda Zorowski, lead plaintiff in the abortion access lawsuit against the state of Texas.
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