During the debate, the former president used the phrase “execute the baby” to attack Kamala Harris for her support of abortion rights.
Trump and Harris have talked about their stances on abortion and what the future might hold for abortion access if elected in the 2024 presidential election.
Eye on Politics reporter Jack Fink spoke about the debate with Republican Michael Williams and Democrat Kim Olson. Like the candidates, they butted heads over illegal immigration but were the most passionate about the abortion issue and whether it was right to overturn Roe v Wade.
When President Joe Biden had given bumbling remarks about abortion on the debate stage, it was widely viewed as a missed opportunity — a failure, even — on a powerful and motivating issue for Democrats at the ballot box.
Missouri's high court ruled to keep a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights on the ballot in November.
Democrat Elissa Slotkin's campaign for U.S. Senate in Michigan dropped two TV ads attacking her GOP opponent Mike Rogers on his anti-abortion record.
Kamala Harris has been a leading voice on reproductive rights, and wants Congress to pass a national law codifying access to safe abortion.
Deception is their business model, and has been since the beginning,” said Jenifer McKenna, an expert on the centers and cofounder of the Massachusetts Abortion Truth Campaign.
The abortion issue is still very much alive in Oklahoma. Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris had something to say at the debate.
Let’s understand how we got here,” Kamala Harris began on Tuesday night, and thus launched three minutes of the most searing defense of reproductive rights we have ever seen in a presidential debate.
The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether an abortion-rights amendment will go before the state's voters this year.