denied emergency medical care. i ll never forget one of the doctors just ripping off his gloves throwing them at the trash and saying i can t help you anymore. you have to geout of state. almost a year later, the landscape of abortion access is even worse. republicans remain focused on pushing restrictive laws that americans overwhelmingly reject. the body inside of the mom s body is not her body. not her body, not her choice. the supreme court may have empowered the states to reshape abortion law, but reproductive rights remain a national issue that the biden/harris administration and congress must respond to, to forge a road map for the work that lies ahead. tonight, from dallas, in a state considered ground zero in the national fight over abortion rights, this is one year post-roe, a reidout special with vice president kamala harris. hello, and thank you for joining me on this special edition of
a significant overlap. and i couldn t agree with you more. that what kansas and your leadership and the leadership of so many people showed us is that when you remind people that they have power through their vote to weigh in on this issue, they do it. from kansas to california. red states, blue states. we saw whenever it was on the ballot in the midterms, people voted in favor of the freedom of the american people to make decisions about their own body. and i think that should give us the momentum that we need to know that we have to encourage people to use their vote, because ultimately, this is an issue that will be resolved by federal legislation that codifies, which means puts into law the protections of roe. but i also will remind people, let s not overlook local and state elections. because if you live in a state
it s one of the things we are doing is fighting against law enforcement having access to this private information, for the sake of criminalizing someone who just, essentially, once health care. but i will say, joy, the bottom line is this. we have got to understand the connection between this issue and elections. elections matter. we have seen that in the work that has been done in the various states. we need a united states congress who understands and appreciates the exact point that has been made at this table. it is the individual, right the privacy right, of people, to make this decision, not having the government make this decision for them. yeah. and let me tell you something. our president, joe biden, when that legislation gets passed, to codify and put in place the protections of roe v. wade, joe biden will sign it. all right. so, let s make sure, everybody that you know is register to vote, like you were talking about. let s make sure that people
sanchez, and shannon brewer are still with me. and joining the conversation is annie runo, associate editor at upworthy, and rachel sweet, former campaign manager for kansans for constitutional freedom. i want to start with you, madam vice president. you were headed to north carolina, which recently overrode the veto of the governor who attempted to stop an abortion ban. that s locked the entire south in. why north carolina, and what are you hoping to achieve there? so, i ll be there for the one-year mark of the dobbs decision, which is this saturday, in four days. to again, discuss and to be right there at a ground zero. why this is an issue that all americans should care about. independent of the choices they would personally make for themselves. this is fundamentally about freedom. the right to make decisions about your own life and your own
between those who are fighting to attack this right and deprive people of this privacy right and those who also have not been leaders on an issue like maternal mortality. but i was on my way to illinois and you know, in the litany of things that i am, including a momala and all the other things, i m also someone who was motivated to become a lawyer because of people like thurgood marshall. one of my inspirations was rbg, and the idea that the highest court in our land just did that and rolled back rights that had been recognized was incredibly shocking. i knew it might happen. the decision had been leaked. i called my husband, i called doug immediately because he was the only one i could really just like let it out with. words not for television at this moment. but again, you know, the thing