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Kamala Harris said the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has raised concerns about the Supreme Court.
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“I think this is an activist court,” Harris said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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The Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade and overturned a landmark decision that legalized abortion in the US.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has raised concerns about the “integrity” of the Supreme Court.
“I think this is an activist court,” Harris said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“It means that for almost half a century we had an established right, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies, in line with what we’ve decided to be, the privacy rights that all people are entitled to.” Harris. “And this court immediately adopted that constitution. And we suffer as a nation.”
“I am very concerned about the integrity of the Court in general,” she continued.
Her comments come months after the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that made access to abortion a right.
Since May, abortion rights advocates fear the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. The fear began when Politico published a leaked draft opinion in which Judge Samuel Alito called the decision “blatantly wrong from the outset.”
The decision to undo Roe v. Wade sparked nationwide protests. Since the decision was made public, a slew of prominent individuals have rejected the ruling. Attorney General Merrick Garland also condemned the court’s decision, calling it a “devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States.”
By overturning Roe, the Supreme Court has placed the issue of abortion legality in the hands of individual state legislators and made it illegal to have abortions in at least 22 states. Several other restrictions are expected to be added.
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