Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Kamala Harris & Abortion: The Short Take

A few days ago, the Omaha World-Herald published a quick note I had submitted to their "letters to the editor" column. They did so after a OWH staffer called me on the phone a few days earlier to have a "fact check" discussion regarding a couple of the points I had made. I very much appreciate their willingness to print the letter.

And for all of you who, like me, do not receive the paper, I print it below. Please make use of the information (reliably "fact-checked" as it is!) in conversations with friends, family, neighbors, and your liberal Aunt Giselda.

"A recurrent charge by Republicans is that the Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris doesn’t stand for anything. But, to be honest, on one point, she has been most remarkably clear and consistent. 1) She has refused to name a single limitation on abortion that she would support. 2) Harris led the way for the U.S. military to begin paying for abortions. 3) She boasted that she was “the first president or vice-president in history to visit a reproductive health clinic” and subsequently did so several times. 4) Harris praised Democrat Attorneys General who were working to shut down pregnancy resource centers. 5) As a senator, Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. And 5) She has promised to make “abortion access” a central theme in her campaign. Oh no; Kamala Harris does stand – and stands strongly – on at least one political matter."