Vice President Harris on Saturday called Texas’ abortion ban “immoral” and urged Texans to protect reproductive rights when considering their choices in the upcoming November elections.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on abortion rights with Mini Timmaraju, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Julieta Garibay, Senior Capacity Building Director for Groundswell Fund, at the LBJ Museum in Austin on Oct. 8, 2022., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
While Harris stressed the importance of voting not only for a governor and attorney general who support reproductive rights, she also noted local elections were also crucial, especially when it comes to choosing a prosecutor. District attorneys will now have to decide whether to prosecute Texas doctors and health care workers if they perform an abortion not meant to save the life of the pregnant patient.
Harris said that the U.S. Department of Justice is working with state attorneys general to ensure Americans have a right to travel but “not the one in Texas,” she said, referring to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “The United States Supreme Court just took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America,” Harris said. “While extremists — so-called leaders — trumpet the rhetoric of freedom, they attack the very foundations of freedom.”
Predictably, Harris’ visit drew barbs from Texas Republicans, including Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, who have criticized the federal government’s stance regarding the U.S.-Mexico border. Federal immigration agents have recorded 2.1 million encounters at the Southwest border — a record number — in the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2022, which ended on Sept. 30 That’s a 24% increase from the entire previous fiscal year 2021. Of those, more than half occurred at the Texas-Mexico border, where agents recorded 1.2 million encounters during the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2022.
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