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Harris adamant: no religious objection for those who do not wish to participate in an abortion

Oct 23, 2024

By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris
Photo: Gage Skidmore

In her last-minute tour of friendly media outlets, pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris has inadvertently let several cats out of the bag. By the way, she’ll have a “town hall” meeting tonight on CNN, moderated by the ever-compliant Anderson Cooper.

The last town hall was in Michigan, moderated by Maria Shriver. A woman asked Shriver, “Are we going to be able to ask a question?”

“You’re not, unfortunately, we have some pre-determined questions,” the former “Dateline” correspondent replied.

Yesterday Harris was questioned by NBC News anchor Hallie Jackson. There were plenty of softball questions. Interestingly enough she tried to pin Harris down on some ultra-controversial issues which are not in our purview. Harris bobbed and weaved, and in at least one occasion, said, “I’m not going to get into those hypotheticals. I’m focused on the next 14 days.”

But she most definitely addressed our issue.

JACKSON: Some of those voters that I spoke with at some of the events yesterday, for example, talked about they were there to support you, but also your agenda when it comes to reproductive rights and abortion access, and you have cast this as a matter of literal life and death as an urgent priority here. If you win, it is entirely possible that Congress will be controlled by Republicans. So what specific concessions would you be willing to make in order to get something done on abortion access as soon as possible? 

Nope. After Harris made her canned remarks bashing former President Trump, Jackson asked

JACKSON: So is a question of pragmatism then: what concessions would be on the table? Religious exemptions, for example, is that something that you would consider with a Republican controlled Congress?

 

HARRIS: I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body. 

To her credit, Jackson pressed Harris:

JACKSON: To Republicans like, for example, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, who would back something like this on a Democratic agenda, if, in fact, Republicans control Congress, would you offer them an olive branch, or is that off the table? Is that not an option for you?  

 

HARRIS: I’m not gonna engage in hypotheticals because we could go on a variety of scenarios. Let’s just start with a fundamental fact, a basic freedom has been taken from the women of America: the freedom to make decisions about their own body. And that cannot be negotiable, which is that we need to put back in the protections of Roe v Wade. And that is it. 

 

JACKSON: But what if you can’t do that? What if you can’t get that passed, and you want to save lives in Florida, and in Texas, and in Georgia? What do you do with that?

 

HARRIS: I’m not going to go down that rabbit hole with you right now.

I think we can agree that “compromise” on abortion was not on Harris’s wish list. David Zimmerman of National Review Online summarized her position under the headline “Harris Rejects Religious Exemptions for Abortion”:

Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday night she would reject religious exemptions for abortion as president, effectively forcing health-care providers to perform the medical procedure in violation of their moral conscience.

 

The Democratic presidential nominee has been adamant about passing a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, despite the Supreme Court overturning that decision in 2022. In an interview with NBC News anchor Hallie Jackson, Harris indicated she would refuse to compromise with Republican lawmakers on the abortion legislation.

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