Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on abortion
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on abortion

LA Times  

Abortion rights, always a polarizing issue in American politics, became an electoral tinderbox in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision to create a federal right to abortion access. The prospect of women not having access to abortion was theoretical in many voters’ minds until the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which set in motion a domino effect of widely varying laws about abortion in the states. ProPublica reported on Sept. 16 that two Georgia women died after being unable to access legal abortion and timely medical care there, including a 28-year-old single mother who traveled to another state to obtain a prescription for a medical abortion, but then had rare complications because the fetal tissue was not fully expelled from her body. A state committee focused on pregnancy-related fatalities concluded that her death was “preventable.” Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris weighed in the day after the report was published, saying that such tragedies are the direct result of former President Trump’s Supreme Court appointees who voted to strike down Roe.

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