As Kamala Harris gives an abortion speech in Georgia, 538 looked at how anti-abortion Republicans performed in primaries this year.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in its 2022 Dobbs decision, abortion emerged as a key issue in the upcoming 2024 election.
Since Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was elected lieutenant governor in 2020, he has rarely shied away from expressing his beliefs, no matter how controversial or offensive they might be. Past comments also have resurfaced in videos and social media posts, and Robinson often has doubled down on those comments.
Vice President Kamala Harris Friday denounced former President Donald Trump for pushing extreme abortion bans after a bombshell new published report called the deaths of two Georgia moms “preventable.
Abortion rights remained on Missouri’s Nov. 5 ballot by the slimmest of margins, according to opinions released Friday by the Missouri Supreme Court.
Vice President Kamala Harris spotlighted the death of a woman in Georgia who was unable to obtain access to a legal abortion, laying the blame on Donald Trump and his role in the US Supreme Court overturning protections for the procedure.
Visiting Wisconsin after giving a speech in Georgia, the vice president signaled she would focus on the life-or-death risks of abortion bans in the final weeks of the race.
Kamala Harris campaigned Friday on restoring abortion rights in Georgia, where most polls show her trailing Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The state Supreme Court last week issued an order keeping the proposed state constitutional amendment – called Amendment 3 – on the Nov. 5 ballot. The judges’ decision came hours before a deadline to finalize the ballot and they didn’t explain their reasoning at the time.
In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductive care in new and surprising ways
At times on Friday, Harris grew emotional as she spoke about maternal mortality, as she did on Wednesday night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. She singled out the “preventable” death of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who, according to medical experts, would have survived had Georgia laws allowed her access to a routine life-saving procedure.