With the Biden/Harris Team and their surrogates across the country launching events this weekend and next to commemorate the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v Wade ruling and the need to restore the reproductive freedom taken away by Donald 'I killed Roe v Wade' Trumps packed court, the President's campaign has released the ad, called "Forced" highlighting how a woman's choice and health care have been imperiled.
In the ad, Dr. Austin Dennard, an OBYGN from Texas and mother of three, recounted how a fourth pregnancy (one she "desperately wanted) revealed that the fetus she carried would not live long after delivery with "no chance for survival." Unfortunately, thanks to the overturning of Roe v Wade and Texas's Handmaid Tale prohibitive abortion statutes, Dr. Dennard was denied access to an abortion because the law "forced" her to carry the fetus to term despite the prognosis and the potential danger to the mother's health.
In the ad, Dr, Dennard said the reason she had to endure this tragedy was:
"Because of Donald Trump overturning Roe v Wade. The choice was completely taken away. I was to continue my pregnancy, putting my life at risk."
Saying "It's every woman's worst nightmare and it was absolutely unbearable," she called for leaders, like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who "will protect our rights and not take them away."
Speaking on the "Forced Ad," Biden/Harris Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriquez commented in a campaign press release:
“No woman in America should have to risk their life or flee their home to receive life-saving care, but because of Donald Trump, too many have been forced to do exactly that. This ad serves as a sobering reminder to women across the country of the devastating legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency – and a warning of his plans, if elected, to take this anti-abortion crusade even further by using every agency and tool of the federal government to limit women’s access to reproductive health care. Additionally, this ad flight will meet voters where they are and remind them of the stakes of this election for women's reproductive rights. President Biden and Vice President Harris are the only candidates in this race fighting to protect a woman’s right to choose and ensure Americans have more rights, not fewer.”
Earlier in the week, Vice President Harris commented on Wisconsin Republican Legislators proposed move to reduce access to abortion from 20 to 14 weeks except in the case of the health or life of the mother, stating:
“Extremists in Wisconsin just introduced a new abortion ban – the latest in their long string of attacks on reproductive freedoms. Women in Wisconsin have lived in a state of chaos and uncertainty ever since Donald Trump paved the way to overturn Roe v. Wade. If Donald Trump is reelected, he’ll try to gut abortion care in every state across the country and he has the plans to do it. Don't forget: this is the same person who said women who get abortions deserve to be punished. Make no mistake, President Biden and I will never stop fighting to make sure that Wisconsin women, and women across this country, never have to worry about the status of their fundamental reproductive rights again.”
The Vice President also appeared on The View to express the Administration and Campaign's concerns about what Trump and MAGA Republicans' return to power would mean for American Democracy, Reproductive Freedom, and basic civil liberties like being able to love who you want to love and access to the voting booth.
In her comments, Vice President Harris said:
"These are fundamental freedoms that are at stake right now...I travel our country and I have been in states that have banned access to reproductive freedom to abortion, even in the case of rape or incest...The idea that in some of these states a ban on abortion includes denying a survivor of rape or incest the ability to make a decision about what happens to their body next is a big, big deal...We will not have the kind of quality of life that I think most people want without fundamental freedoms and the rights that are guaranteed in our Constitution and in the ideals in which we were founded. All of that is very much at stake. We've got a guy right now, the former President, running for office, openly saying that he promises to essentially be a dictator...who is proud that he stripped America's women of the right to make decisions about their own bodies. A person...who is admitting he would weaponize the Department of Justice..."
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