The Role of Women’s Health in Pregnant Birth: Sarah Harris’s Arguments During the GOP Presidential Debate against Biden
Larry Levitt said in an interview that Harris would be the face of the drive to protect abortion rights, before Biden stepped aside. She’d likely make abortion access part of her campaign.
Republicans may paint Harris’ views on abortion as extremists. During the presidential debate against Biden, Trump falsely claimed Democrats support abortions late in pregnancy, “even after birth.”
She has a well- versed in health policy, and her strong stance on abortion is only one of the differences she offers. Harris’ mother worked in the lab where she was researching breast cancer when she was a child.
“She deserves credit, she’s talked about them on the campaign trail. I don’t see any change there in the priorities on what Democrats want to do on health care if she becomes the nominee,” said Debbie Curtis, vice president at McDermott + Consulting.
An intensified focus on women’s health and abortion could help galvanize Democratic voters in the final sprint to the election. Since the Supreme Court justices named by Trump helped overturn Wade, public opinion has turned against the Republicans, which has resulted in an unexpected poor showing in the 2022 elections.
Sixty-three percent of adults said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, based on a poll conducted in April by Pew Research Center. Thirty-six percent said it should be illegal in all or most cases.
The Republicans have been trying to distance themselves from their own victory on the issue. Trump angered some of his base by saying he would not make decisions about abortion in the states.
Regardless, advocates caution that the GOP’s new moderation-by-omission on the issue masks their actual, more extreme stance. When Vance was running for Senate, he was clear about his support for a national abortion ban, though he now says he supports Trump’s position to let the states decide. And while the GOP platform adopted during the party’s convention last week does not explicitly call for a nationwide ban on abortion, party leaders did recognize “fetal personhood,” the idea that as soon as an egg is fertilized it becomes a person with full legal rights. It’s a legal theory that could end both IVF and abortion.
“It’s been one of, if not the main, issue she’s emphasized in the last year or two,” said Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb professor of global communications at Harvard University. “Clearly the Republicans are trying to defang the issue. It has been a disaster for them.
Harris will need to do more than just campaign against the Republican efforts to roll back abortion access because so many other issues, such as inflation, the economy, and immigration, are competing for voters’ attention.
A Harvard University professor said that she has to say that she is running for a federal law that will bring back the abortion law. She needs something clear and specific.
But the Supreme Court returned the case to the district court in Texas where it was filed, and the GOP attorneys general of three states — Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri — have joined the case as plaintiffs. If the courts accept the states as challengers, they will be asked to decide the fate of the abortion pill.
The federal law requiring hospitals to offer emergency care against Idaho’s strict ban on abortion was used in the other abortion-related case.
The justices apparently failed to make a majority decision in the case and sent it back to the lower court for further consideration. That case could come back in a short time.
Biden-Harris Administration: What’s Going On? How Will She Revisit Medicare, Costs, and Reproductive Rights?
Harris would also have substantial leeway to talk about what are considered to be the Biden administration’s core health policy accomplishments. These include enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits aimed at helping consumers get health insurance coverage, which were extended through the Inflation Reduction Act into 2025, the $35 monthly cap on copays some patients pay for insulin, and drug price negotiation in Medicare.
She is well positioned. The CEO of Morgan Health said that she was the “core to the administration” and would be able to take credit for things.
Some important steps have been taken by the administration, but new expensive drugs keep coming out. The perception of consumers is that the cost of drugs isn’t going down.
Joseph Antos, of the American Enterprise Institute, said Harris would likely say the Biden-Harris administration “is already saving people money” on insulin. She will have to go far beyond reproductive rights and talk about other cost issues as well.
“She’s got to concentrate, if she wants to win, on issues that have a broad appeal,” Antos said. Costs and access to treatments are two big issues.
Source: Harris, who is Biden’s voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume
What Do We Learn About Kamala Harris? On the Turn-Off of the 2024 Presidential Race, and What We Don’t Know About Her
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As I was finishing my latest national survey of voters on Sunday afternoon, President Biden announced that he was dropping out of the presidential race in favor of Vice President Harris.
I’m sure I’m not the only pollster who was in the field, trying to measure the impact of the events of just the previous several days: the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the selection of JD Vance as Mr. Trump’s running mate, the president coming down with Covid, the entire Republican National Convention.
Suddenly, the 2024 race has been turned on its head. We need to get a full read on the change-up at the top of the Democratic ticket.
It will take a few days for the idea of Ms. Harris becoming the Democratic nominee to spread through the public consciousness. Even then, it will take a few days for pollsters to go back out, ask people their views and then crunch the numbers.
Republicans could be in the trap of “very online” against Ms. Harris. It is hard to overstate the amount of dislike Republicans have for Ms. Harris. If you only learn about her from conservative media, you’re most likely steeped in “unburdened by what has been” video montages and criticism of her laugh. Assume this is how most voters think of her — or that they will care about this slight awkwardness — at your own risk.
Source: Opinion | What Polling Tells Us About a Kamala Harris Candidacy
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