Harris blames Trump for state abortion bans that have taken effect since overturning of Roe

Speaking in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, days after the state’s Supreme Court upheld an 1864 near-total abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd that the bans taking effect across the country are because of then-President Donald Trump’s appointment of three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who helped decide to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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KAMALA HARRIS: What has happened here in Arizona is a new inflection point. It has demonstrated once and for all that overturning Roe was just the opening act-- just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women's rights and freedoms, part of a full-on attack, state by state on reproductive freedom. And we all must understand who is to blame.

[AGREEMENT FROM THE CROWD]

Former President Donald Trump did this. During his campaign in 2016, Donald Trump said women should be punished for seeking an abortion. Don't forget that. He said women should be punished, as President Donald Trump hand-picked three members of the United States Supreme Court, because he intended-- intended for them to overturn Roe. And as he intended, they did.

And now, because of Donald Trump, more than 20 states in our nation have bans. Now, because of Donald Trump, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age in our country live in a state that has a Trump abortion ban.