美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)和副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯周一(最高法院否决罗诉韦德案的两周年纪念日)采取攻势,在堕胎权问题上对前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)发起猛烈抨击,距离周四的辩论只有三天时间。
“特朗普没有否认,更没有对自己的行为表现出悔意。相反,他引用道,“自豪地”将推翻罗伊案的功劳归于自己,”哈里斯在马里兰州的一次堕胎权利集会上说。“我的美国同胞们,在法庭上,这将被称为对美国妇女生殖自由被剥夺的承认。唐纳德·特朗普有罪。”
拜登、哈里斯、白宫和他们的竞选团队努力将斗争集中在堕胎问题上,这个问题在过去两年里一直激励着红州和蓝州的选民,他们认为这对他们在11月的连任竞选至关重要。
拜登的代理人分散在全国各地:哈里斯在马里兰州的集会后前往亚利桑那州参加一个关于堕胎的圆桌会议;第一夫人吉尔·拜登在费城参加竞选活动;第二位先生道格·艾姆霍夫在密歇根州有三场竞选活动。
拜登本人没有参加多布斯周年纪念活动;相反,他自上周四以来一直在戴维营,并与十多名助手一起参加辩论准备,包括站着进行长达90分钟的模拟辩论,然后在本周晚些时候与特朗普摊牌。但是总统确实对堕胎权发表了评论。
拜登在一份声明中说:“两年前的今天,唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在最高法院的多数席位剥夺了女性获得她们需要和应该获得的医疗保健的基本自由。”他补充说,“后果是毁灭性的。”
拜登后来说,“唐纳德·特朗普是这场噩梦的唯一责任人。”
在社交媒体上发布的一段视频中,拜登阅读了川普的一篇帖子,川普因能够“杀死罗诉韦德案”而获得荣誉,并说:“几十年的进步被粉碎,只是因为上一个家伙在白宫呆了四年。”
“我们知道如果他再得四分会发生什么。对共和党人来说,罗伊案只是一个开始,”拜登说。“他们将试图在全国范围内禁止选择权。他们接下来要做试管受精和节育手术。”
拜登竞选团队推出了一个电视广告,由来自路易斯安那州的女性凯特琳·约书亚(Kaitlyn Joshua)出演,讲述了她在堕胎禁令方面的经历,并将责任归咎于特朗普。
“我怀孕11周左右的时候流产了。我感到的痛苦是难以忍受的。我被两个急诊室拒之门外,”约书亚说。“这是唐纳德·特朗普推翻罗伊诉韦德案的直接结果。”
该广告是本月早些时候该运动推出的更大的5000万美元广告闪电战的一部分。
周末在一个信仰在& Freedom conference上,特朗普继续吹嘘他挑选了三名投票否决罗伊案的最高法院法官,称尽管他们对这一决定感到很“愤怒”,但这是“正确”的选择。
他说:“我顶住了恶毒的攻击,挑选并确认了三名最高法院的大法官。”“我们也实现了反堕胎运动奋斗了49年的目标,我们让堕胎脱离了联邦政府,回到了各州。”
特朗普竞选团队周一推迟了拜登团队针对前总统的协调一致的信息。
特朗普竞选发言人卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)在一份声明中称拜登、哈里斯和民主党人为“激进极端分子”,指责他们支持“纳税人资助的堕胎,直到出生”。
这是白宫周一断然否认的指控。
“总统和副总统不支持分娩前的堕胎,也不支持分娩后的堕胎,事实上,那不是堕胎,”白宫性别政策委员会主任詹妮弗·克莱因在与记者的电话中说。
特朗普的发言人莱维特也表示,民主党人“在特朗普总统在这个问题上的立场上撒谎,绝望地试图吓唬选民。事实是,多布斯案的判决将权力交还给了各州的人民,让他们就堕胎问题做出决定。”
她后来补充说:“特朗普总统也强烈支持确保妇女获得创建健康家庭所需的护理,包括广泛获得体外受精、节育和避孕,他永远都会这样做。”
国会共和党人本月阻止了保护试管受精和避孕的法案,声称它们是民主党选举年的信息。白宫新闻秘书卡琳·让·皮埃尔周一抨击这一举动是“极端的”、“脱离实际的”和“错误的”
在她的集会上,哈里斯由凯特·考克斯介绍,凯特·考克斯是一位德克萨斯州的妇女,在被医生告知她的生命有危险后,她离开了她的州去堕胎,她是今年国情咨文演讲的第一夫人的客人之一。
“今天,我很高兴地告诉大家,我又怀孕了,”考克斯对欢呼的人们说。“我希望到那时,当我们欢迎我们的孩子来到这个世界时,这个世界将由乔·拜登和卡玛拉·哈里斯领导。”
3 days before debate, Biden, Harris blast Trump on abortion rights on Dobbs anniversary
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday -- the second anniversary of the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade -- took the offensive, launching blistering blows against former President Donald Trump on abortion rights, just three days ahead of Thursday's debate.
"Trump has not denied much less shown remorse for his actions. Instead, he quote, 'proudly' takes credit for overturning Roe," Harris said at an abortion rights rally in Maryland. "My fellow Americans, in a court of law that would be called an admission in the case of the stealing of reproductive freedom from the women of America. Donald Trump is guilty."
Biden, Harris, the White House, and their campaign worked to center the fight on abortion, an issue that has galvanized voters in both red and blue states over the last two years, and that they view as critical to their chances at reelection in November.
Biden's surrogates fanned out around the country: Harris was traveling to Arizona for a roundtable on abortion after her Maryland rally; first lady Jill Biden is in Philadelphia for campaign events; and second gentleman Doug Emhoff has three campaign events across Michigan.
Biden himself is not on the trail to mark the Dobbs anniversary; he is instead at Camp David where he has been since last Thursday and is taking part in debate prep with over a dozen aides, including standing for full 90-minutes mock debates, ahead of his showdown with Trump later this week. But the president did comment on abortion access.
"Two years ago today, Donald Trump's Supreme Court majority ripped away the fundamental freedom for women to access the health care they need and deserve," Biden said in a statement, adding that "the consequences have been devastating."
Biden later said, "Donald Trump is the sole person responsible for this nightmare."
In a video posted to social media, Biden read from a post by Trump taking credit for being able to "kill Roe v. Wade" and said: "Decades of progress shattered just because the last guy got four years in the White House."
"We know what will happen if he gets another four. For MAGA Republicans, Roe is just the beginning," Biden argued. "They're going to try to ban the right to choose nationwide. They're coming for IVF and birth control next."
The Biden campaign rolled out a TV ad featuring Kaitlyn Joshua, a woman from Louisiana, telling of her experience with abortion bans and laying blame at Trump's feet.
"I was right around 11 weeks when I had a miscarriage. The pain that I was feeling was excruciating. And I was turned away from 2 emergency rooms," Joshua said. "That was a direct result of Donald Trump overturning Roe v. Wade."
The ad is part of a larger $50 million advertising blitz the campaign rolled out earlier this month.
Over the weekend at a Faith& Freedom conference, Trump continued to boast that he picked three Supreme Court Justices who voted to overrule Roe, saying that although they took a lot of "heat" over the decision, it was the "right" choice.
"I with stood vicious attacks to pick and confirm three great Supreme Court justices," he said. "We have also achieved what the pro-life movement fought to get for 49 years and we've gotten abortion out of the federal government and back to the states."
The Trump campaign on Monday pushed back on the Biden team's coordinated messaging against the former president.
Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson, labeled Biden, Harris and Democrats as "radical extremists" in a statement, accusing them of supporting "taxpayer funded abortions up until birth."
It's an accusation the White House flatly denied Monday.
"The president and the vice president do not support abortion up until the time of birth, nor do they support abortion after birth, in fact, that's not abortion," Jennifer Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said on a call with reporters.
Leavitt, Trump's spokesperson, also said the Democrats "lie about President Trump's position on this issue in a desperate attempt to scare voters. The truth is that the Dobbs Decision returned the power back to the people in every respective state to make decisions on the issue of abortion."
She later added: "President Trump also strongly supports ensuring women have access to the care they need to create healthy families, including widespread access to IVF, birth control, and contraception, and he always will."
Congressional Republicans this month blocked bills that would protect IVF and contraception, claiming they were Democratic election-year messaging. It's a move White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed on Monday as "extreme," "out of touch" and "wrong."
At her rally, Harris was introduced by Kate Cox, a Texas woman who left her state to get an abortion after being told by her doctor that her life was at risk and who was one of the first lady's guests at this year's State of the Union address.
"Today, I'm happy to share that I'm pregnant again," Cox said to cheers. "I hope that by then, when we welcome our baby to the world, it will be a world led by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris."