Vice President Kamala Harris has always been one of the most pro-abortion figures in the Democratic Party. In her current role, and especially since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022, she's really been doubling down. It is an election year after all, and Democrats are looking to focus on an issue that may be more popular with their base, but just really isn't with the American people overall. Her recent interview with far-left magazine Rolling Stone was a low even for her, though. She tried to insert her pro-abortion views into a discussion about the sex life of every young woman in her 20s.
The interviewer, Alex Morris, phrased abortion as a right versus left issue, using phrases such as how "the right has won" and to ask what "the playbook for the left should be."
Especially when speaking to the latter point and answering a question on what to pay attention to so as to further promote pro-abortion policies, Harris said she was "reluctant to categorize this as simply 'left' and 'right,'" as she claimed "[t]his is about fundamental freedom, and I don't see a left or right on that." That's quite the nonsensical point, given that those on the left tend to be pro-abortion, and those on the right tend to be pro-life. Further, this "fundamental freedom" she talks about is the so-called "freedom" to have an unborn child killed.
But it gets worse from there.
"There is not a woman in her twenties who, if she’s having sex with a man, isn’t worried about getting pregnant unintentionally," Harris claimed. "So talk about a lived experience for a whole lot of people who don't think about 'Am I left or right?'"
Excuse me? Does Harris have the data on the sexual experience of every woman in her 20s? That's just objectively creepy, especially the position of power that the vice president is in. Plenty of women are in committed relationships in their 20s, including marriages, the most ideal relationship for raising a child. Countless of them are not "worried about getting pregnant unintentionally." They may be actually planning to get pregnant. They may be indifferent. They may even be "worried" about not getting pregnant.
Even when a woman in her 20s "get[s] pregnant unintentionally" after "having sex with a man," that doesn't mean she's "worried." I myself experienced that in my early 20s when it came to my first daughter. I was actually single and pregnant for a time. I was experiencing plenty of emotions, mostly shock at such an unintended pregnancy. But I wouldn't categorize it as being "worried" in the sense Harris is speaking about.
Now I indeed consider myself to be on the "right," and my pro-life views line up with that. I also know people who consider themselves to be on the "left" who are pro-life. I did view my experience through the eyes of being pro-life and on the "right."
I was just about to turn 25 when I found out I was pregnant, I was taking graduate classes online, and I had a job that was enough to support me so that I could pay my own rent in a shared apartment, though likely not dependents. I lived away from many of my friends, family, and the father of my child. I was thus the textbook example of a young unmarried woman seeking an abortion for socioeconomic reasons, as most women do.
Had I not been pro-life, or had I perhaps just not been as informed on the issue as I thankfully was, my oldest daughter might not even be here. I do believe having an abortion would have brought some very heavy emotional damage.
Had I had an abortion and had I emotionally suffered, I would not have been the only woman affected in such a way. Studies show that women who have an abortion experience greater mental health issues. The website for Silent No More includes testimonies of women who have experienced and regret their abortions, which also provides resources for post-abortive women.
My own story has already proven Harris point wrong. And I'm just one example out of many. It can't be emphasized enough that I take great issue with how the vice president, a woman in such a position of power, looks to lump together the sexual experience of an entire age group of women.
It's not just because of my own personal experience that Harris' response is objectively so outrageous. You might have your own experience with this matter, or you might know people who do. You might not. You still ought to be repulsed by Harris.
That's because there's also a matter of taking personal responsibility, something that the right has been associated more so with, so we again can categorize it as a "left or right" issue. Sex causes pregnancies, even and including when contraception is involved. If women and their male partners are more willing to take on that responsibility in acknowledging sex makes babies, they might be less "worried."
Further, it's mighty bold of the vice president to talk about women having sex with men when many in her party refuse to define what a woman is--including now Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson--and when there's a whole narrative about trans men. The so-called party of science can't seem to figure out basic biology when it comes to how only women get pregnant, and that it's a unique human being she's pregnant with.
Morris didn't appear perturbed by Harris' point. Rather she moved on to pointing out "I guess what I'm saying is, is there a form of catching up that needs to happen." Harris in part responded by claiming "[t]his was a very rude awakening about what can happen in terms of the erosion of rights and freedoms if we're not vigilant," as she also stressed "it's important that you vote and be aware."
The abortion issue has now gone back to the states. There's a ban in some states, while in Harris' home state of California and plenty of others, a woman can obtain an abortion at any point in her pregnancy for any reason up until the moment of birth. Former and potentially future President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes abortion should be an issue left to the states, though the Biden-Harris reelection campaign has of course lied about his stance on the issue.
Sure enough, Harris claimed "I would recommend that you don't believe" Trump will leave the issue to the states. Again, she and President Joe Biden and their fellow Democrats have made the abortion issue a particularly visible part of their campaign. It's thus not surprising but is still no less shameful Harris would then address issue with such reckless abandon.
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