Vice President Kamala Harris took to the streets of Los Angeles to decry “extremist” assaults on abortion rights throughout an impromptu cease on the City of Angels’ Women’s March on Saturday.
Ms. Harris was joined by second gentleman Douglas Emhoff for the shock cease exterior of L.A. City Hall.
“Around our country, supposed so-called extremist leaders, who would dare to silence the voice of the people, a United States Supreme Court, the highest court in our land, that took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America,” she mentioned.
“We have seen attacks on voting rights, attacks on fundamental rights to love and to marry the people that you love, attacks on the ability of people to be themselves and be proud of the people who they are,” she added. “And so this is a moment that history will show required each of us, based on our collective love of our country to stand up for, and fight for, to protect our ideals.”
The “March for Reproductive Rights,” was organized by Women’s March Action in response to “Conservative Texas Judge’s attempt to override the FDA’s approved mifepristone, effectively enacting a national abortion ban.”
Texas District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ordered a maintain final week on federal approval of mifepristone, a pharmaceutical used to terminate pregnancies. That ruling break up with an reverse ruling issued almost concurrently by Washington state District Judge Thomas O. Rice.
The Justice Department on Friday filed an emergency attraction with the Supreme Court asking the justices to undo the Texas ruling.
Ms. Harris has known as restrictions on abortion “immoral” and has promised the White House would push again on efforts to ban mifepristone.
“There are now partisan and political attacks attempting to question the legitimacy of a group of scientists and doctors who have studied the significance of this drug,” she mentioned in February. “There is now an attempt by politicians to remove it from the ability of doctors to prescribe and the ability of people to receive.”
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