The Daily Signal - Kamala Harris’ ‘Reproductive Freedom Week of Action’ is a ‘Lie,’ Pro-Life Activist Says

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, dubbed last week the "Fight for Reproductive Freedom Week of Action." Democrats say abortion empowers women, but research shows that most women would have chosen life if they had more emotional and material support, Emily Erin Davis, vice president of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told The Daily Signal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I sat down with Emily Aaron Davis, vice president of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. We discussed presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, naming last week, Fight for Reproductive Freedom Week of Action. Stay tuned for my conversation with Emily Aaron Davis after this. Conservative women are problematic women. Why?

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that are of particular interest to conservative leaning, that is problematic women. Find problematic women wherever you like to listen to podcasts and follow the show on Instagram. Thank you so much for joining us, Emily. Thank you for having me on here to share. This week, Vice President Kamala Harris declared Fight for Reproductive Freedom Week of Action. What does this show about her campaign platform? It shows a lot of things, but I think the top thing that it shows is that, She is really leaning into her radical record on abortion.

I mean, we found out this week, it was unearthed in the news that she was ranked on her record the most leftist senator in 2019, and no clearer is there an image of that than on her record on abortion. So, you know, whereas Biden had a hard time saying the word abortion at his state of the union address. Here you've got Harris and rallies shouting it from the rooftops. So with her at the helm, we're really going to see this seismic shift of the Democrats shirking that pro-choice or abortions. All abortions are tragic or unwanted to really leaning into this shout your abortion type of party. And we hear Democrats use the term reproductive freedom a lot. What exactly does that

mean? Well, it's a lie is what it is. I mean, if you look at, you look at, you know, at the polls of women who have had abortion, the majority of them will tell you my abortion was not freedom. And even to go even further, it was a lie according to Democrats just a few years ago. Like I said, they acknowledged that all abortions were tragic, but they had this thought that they were a necessary tragedy. But here they are saying that I am, if a woman is, you know, to get an abortion, that is empowering. That is freedom. And like I said, the majority of women that have had abortions, recent research shows that they do not feel that way. In fact, they said, I would not have gotten this abortion had I had the financial or emotional support. Not to mention a large section of the women shown in the research that said that their abortions were either forced, coerced, or pressured, and certainly unwanted. And sorry, let me add one more thing to that because not only is it just the women who are going through this, but there is never freedom involved for the child who is the direct target of

that abortion. Absolutely. And this week of action was inspired by a pro-life law in Iowa. Could you tell us a little bit about this law and why it has Kamal Harris so up in arms? You're referring to the Iowa heartbeat law. I am assuming. Yes. Yep, this is a law in which Iowans are recognizing that the children in the state, the babies in the womb, have value and should be saved. And they have said that that should happen when there's a heartbeat at six weeks.

And for Kamala Harris, she doesn't even recognize the gestational development of a child in the womb, not just at the heartbeat, but at any time. And we have seen this when she was directly asked by Face the Nation reporter, you know, what limit would you put on abortion? Would it be 20 weeks? 24. Does that mirror what you think Roe is? And she said no, no, no. She could not list a single week that she would support limiting abortion and granting protections for babies in the womb. So she seems to be incensed by the fact that in Iowa they would like to protect children in the womb by the time a heartbeat is detected. And could you tell us a little bit about Kamala Harris's pro-abortion track record, both as a senator and as vice president of the United States? Yes, her track record is beyond egregious. She has continually shown not only that she won't support any limits on abortion, but she was actually one of the original co-sponsors of the quote-unquote, so-called Women's Health Protection Act. And so we know that this is legislation that she has her eye on. It's something that Democrats continue to push. And that will federally strip pro-life states

of the will of their people for pro-life laws. It will federally mandate in all 50 states, all-trimester abortion on demand. And it will even go as far as doing things like stripping informed consent laws, you know, 24-hour waiting periods, parental consent and notification laws for a minor for their parents to know if they were to get an abortion. So it is really egregious, but this is something she co-sponsored and has put her name and stamped to. And so mark my words, we will see her continue to push that. I know right now she is saying, I just want to restore Roe. But instead of listening to what she says, let's look at her actions. And that is her record as then Senator Kamala Harris.

Also, she voted against protections for babies when they could feel pain when she was in the Senate, not once, but twice. And also twice voted against protecting babies born alive after failed abortions, as we have seen the abortion Survivors Network talk about frequently with survivors of abortions. So those are certainly on her record as a senator. And I've got to say, as vice president and the Biden-Harris administration, one of the most horrible hallmarks that we have seen of this administration is their direct targeting of pro-life Americans. We've seen all kinds of targeting of using the face act through their DOJ to criminalize and put pro-life Americans in federal prison, despite the fact that their own FBI director, Chris, Ray said that 70% of the attacks since Roe, since the Dobs decision, has been 70% against pro-lifers.

Yet there is that disparity there. And as prosecutor, just as a reminder, Kamala Harris was the one who, when whistleblowers exposed Planned Parenthood's role in California in the harvest and sale of baby body parts, she went after the whistleblowers, not Planned Parenthood. I mean, this is really just egregious and unprecedented. And we also see that she was trying to shut down pregnancy centers. And even as a vice president, she's praising efforts of different states to shut down pregnancy centers, certainly not a pro-choice position for sure.

As you said, she was one of the most liberal members of the Senate supporting abortion with no restriction. What do you think this would mean for her if she were to be elected president? and how would it be different than what we've seen with President Joe Biden? Yeah, it's really interesting to me because, you know, for her campaign right now, she really needs to get these independent and these moderate voters on her side, you know, and get those votes. But she is not even trying an inch to moderate on abortion at all. She is leaning in full force to her radical abortion position going as far as,

calling abortion freedom and having people in her cabinet even on these campaign calls. I know this week we saw Mayor Pete, you know, Pete Buttigieg on their kind of stumping for her saying that, you know, thank goodness that she's leaning into abortion is freedom because now men are freer when women get abortions. So she is just really going all in and leaning into this. And like I said, she has already said multiple times that she will do all. all that she can to get the abortion legislation shoved through Congress. And it's Nancy Pelosi, who also said alongside, too, that they will change the rules of government. They will nuke the filibuster. This is the thing that they are obsessed with and wanting to push through as much

as possible, all trimester abortion mandate on 50 states, regardless of what the voters in each of their states say about pro-life laws. And as a reminder, that would impact 24 states right now that protect babies, particularly those 24 states that protect babies in the womb at least by 12 weeks or earlier. Wow. And do you think that a week of life is in order following this reproductive week of action week? I think every week should be a week of life. You know, I think every week we should be lifting up these pregnancy centers that are on the ground in doing this work, it makes no sense to me, particularly when she's looking at independence and moderates and persuadable voters, why she is fully leaning in to abortionist freedom, when she could be looking at women across

this country and their children and saying, what kind of support can we talk about? What kind of resources can we talk about for growing American families and really helping these women the majority of unplanned pregnancies who are saying, help me, I just need a lifeline, not a lifeender. But she is not doing that. And I think that that is a huge and failed missed opportunity for her, especially if she's looking at those independent and moderate voters. But yeah, every week should be a week of life, certainly, so we can cherish and honor and lift up those mothers and children and do all that we can. And certainly we this week have really leaned into our efforts.

As Susan B. Anthony, Pro-Life America, we have a very strong ground game. We are in eight battleground states across this country talking and visiting millions of voters. And we are spending this week, counter to what Harris is doing, talking about her record on abortion and letting persuadable voters

and pro-life voters who don't typically vote know what they can expect based off of her actions, what could come and what will come when she gets in. if she were to get in as president. Wow. Well, thank you so much for joining us today, and it's great to hear a message of life in light of this. Absolutely. Thank you so much.

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