- Vice President
Kamala Harris said that "women will die" if Roe v. Wade is pared down or overturned. - "I don't mean to sound alarmist, I mean this: Women will die," $4.
Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview published on Sunday that "women will die" if the
$4, Harris said that threatening the established precedent would create dire situations for women seeking lifesaving procedures, as well as cause irreparable harm to women who might potentially turn to unsanctioned methods.
"I don't mean to sound alarmist, I mean this: Women will die," she said.
As the first female to assume the vice presidency in US history — as well as a former member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who $4 for her sharp questioning of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings — Harris has been a staunch $4 of women's
"I'm very concerned about it," Harris said of the potential for Roe to be pared down or reversed. "Women will die. In particular, women who don't have economic resources and can't then travel to places or somehow have access to safe reproductive health care, including abortion. And it is not an extreme statement, it is a fact."
Despite Harris' support of
"We have to see what the court does," she said in the interview.
The case that is being used to challenge Roe is the most urgent threat to abortion rights in nearly 30 years — with
In 2018, the Republican-controlled Mississippi legislature passed a
During oral arguments earlier this month, the court $4 that it could potentially uphold the Mississippi law, but the fate of Roe remains up in the air.