WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized former President Donald Trump’s latest feedback about reproductive rights, saying he must belief ladies to make their very own choices.
“I do not suppose the ladies of America want him to say he will shield them,” Harris mentioned throughout an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, referring to earlier feedback from Trump. “The ladies of America want him to belief them.”
The total interview will air at 7 p.m. ET on MSNBC.
Trump mentioned in an all caps submit to Fact Social final week that ladies “will not be excited about abortion, as a result of it’s now the place it all the time needed to be, with the states.”
“I’ll shield ladies at a stage by no means seen earlier than,” he mentioned. “They’ll lastly be wholesome, hopeful, protected, and safe.”
Requested if People can belief her on that entrance, Harris mentioned “sure.”
“I’m not excellent, however I’ll inform you I am all the time going to place the wants of the folks first,” she mentioned.
Harris individually pointed to Trump’s earlier comments suggesting ladies must be punished for having abortions.
“Donald Trump can also be the one that mentioned ladies must be punished for exercising a choice that they rightly ought to be capable to make about their very own physique and their future,” Harris mentioned. “So I believe we’d all agree that because of that perspective that he has about ladies, he additionally then selected three members of the US Supreme Court docket who did as he meant, undid the protections of Roe v Wade.”
Harris was referring to feedback Trump made in 2016 when he mentioned that the “reply is that there needs to be some type of punishment, yeah,” when requested about punishing ladies who broke a theoretical abortion ban.
Later, his marketing campaign mentioned that if abortion have been made unlawful, “the physician or some other individual performing this unlawful act upon a lady can be held legally accountable, not the girl.”
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Harris’ remarks within the interview.
