Here’s What Harris and Trump Said About Abortion in the 2024 Presidential Debate

TIME

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump lambasted one another over their stances on abortion during the presidential debate Tuesday night.

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00:00They have abortion in the ninth month.

00:03They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia,

00:06the previous governor of West Virginia,

00:08not the current governor who's doing an excellent job,

00:10but the governor before.

00:12He said, the baby will be born,

00:14and we will decide what to do with the baby.

00:16In other words, we'll execute the baby.

00:18There is no state in this country

00:20where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.

00:23Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy

00:27to term and asking for an abortion.

00:31That is not happening.

00:32It's insulting to the women of America.

00:35One does not have to abandon their faith

00:38or deeply held beliefs to agree.

00:41The government, and Donald Trump certainly,

00:43should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.

00:47I have talked with women around our country.

00:51You want to talk about this is what people wanted?

00:54Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term,

00:57suffering from a miscarriage,

00:59being denied care in an emergency room

01:02because the health care providers are afraid they might go to jail,

01:05and she's bleeding out in a car in the parking lot?

01:08She didn't want that? Her husband didn't want that?

01:11A 12- or 13-year-old survivor of incest

01:15being forced to carry a pregnancy to term?

01:18They don't want that?

01:21And I pledge to you, when Congress passes a bill

01:25to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade

01:28as president of the United States,

01:30I will proudly sign it into law.

01:33But understand, if Donald Trump were to be reelected,

01:37he will sign a national abortion ban.

01:39There she goes again. It's a lie.

01:42I'm not signing a ban, and there's no reason to sign a ban

01:45because we've gotten what everybody wanted.

01:48Democrats, Republicans, and everybody else,

01:51and every legal scholar

01:53wanted it to be brought back into the states,

01:55and the states are voting.

01:57And it may take a little time,

01:59but for 52 years, this issue has torn our country apart,

02:04and they've wanted it back in the states.

02:06And I did something that nobody thought was possible.

02:09Individual state is voting.

02:11It's the vote of the people now.

02:13It's not tied up in the federal government.

02:15I did a great service in doing it.

02:17And the Supreme Court had great courage in doing it.

02:20And I give tremendous credit to those six justices.

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