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Posted: 2024-09-11T02:37:05Z | Updated: 2024-09-11T02:37:05Z

Kamala Harris lit into Donald Trump when the topic of abortion came up during Tuesday nights presidential debate.

Harris broke down the horrors pregnant people have experienced since the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade two years ago. She reminded voters that Trump nominated three of the conservative members of the Supreme Court who unraveled nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections.

Harris dubbed the abortion bans and restrictions that nearly 20 states have enacted since the fall of Roe the Trump abortion bans, making it clear who she believes is responsible for the current landscape of reproductive health in the U.S.

One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government and Donald Trump, certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body, Harris told the ABC moderators.

I have talked with women around our country, she continued. You want to talk about This is what people wanted pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail and shes bleeding out in a car in the parking lot? She didnt want that. Her husband didnt want that.

A 12- or 13-year-old survivor of incest being forced to carry a pregnancy to term? They dont want that, she added, seemingly referencing Trumps false and repeated claim that everybody wanted Roe v. Wade terminated for years.

When Trump claimed that women are getting abortions up until the moment of birth with some even murdering babies right after theyre born a common though completely false Republican talking point ABCs Linsey Davis immediately fact-checked the former president.

There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after its born, Davis said.

Harris also pushed Trump to answer if he would enact a national abortion ban if elected, tying him to Project 2025 a wish list of extreme anti-abortion policies created by many of his longtime allies.

Understand if Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban. Understand in his Project 2025, there would be a monitor, that would be monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages, she said. I think the American people believe that certain freedoms, in particular the freedom to make decisions about ones own body, should not be made by the government.

Although Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he hasnt even read it, the plan mentions him by name more than 300 times.

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Trump refused to say whether he would sign a national abortion ban if elected to a second term.