Harris: Roe ruling similar to ‘history … of government trying to claim ownership over human bodies’
by Zach Schonfeld - 07/03/22 7:53 AM ET
Vice President Harris said during an appearance late Saturday at the Essence Festival in New Orleans that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was “problematic on so many levels.”
“We have to recognize we’re a nation that was founded on certain principles that are grounded in the concept of freedom and liberty,” Harris said. “We also know that we’ve had a history in this country of government trying to claim ownership over human bodies.”
“We had supposedly evolved from that time and that way of thinking,” she said. “So this is very problematic on so many levels.”
The Supreme Court last month in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Organization voted to uphold a Mississippi law banning abortion at 15 weeks, also overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established abortion as a constitutional right.
The decision has fueled intense Democratic anger and a flurry of lawsuits in states opposing so-called trigger laws that automatically implemented abortion restrictions following the court’s ruling.
“The Supreme Court, with the Dobbs decision, for the first time in the history of our nation took a constitutional right that had been recognized and took it from the women of America,” Harris said in New Orleans. “Took a constitutional right.”
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