{"id":313602,"date":"2024-06-11T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=313602"},"modified":"2024-06-12T01:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T06:00:51","slug":"kamala-harris-joy-reid-killing-enslavers-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kamala-harris-joy-reid-killing-enslavers-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris and Joy Reid: If you oppose killing the preborn, you’re ‘immoral’ enslavers of women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Kamala Harris recently appeared<\/a> on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” where she made a number of offensive comparisons regarding the pro-life movement. Not to be outdone, MSNBC host Joy Reid made similar claims on her own show as well.<\/p>\n

Joy Reid calls Missouri a “slave state”<\/h3>\n

On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid interviewed<\/a> former senator Claire McCaskill, an ardent abortion supporter. Reid described Missouri<\/a> as a “slave state” for women.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you how crazy it\u2019s gotten in Missouri,\u201d McCaskill, now an MSNBC analyst, told Reid. \u201cAbortions \u2014 all abortions are illegal. There\u2019s no exception for rape or incest. Conception happens \u2014 life begins at conception, it\u2019s a personhood state. Okay? So, no abortions are being performed at Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood got money as a Medicaid provider to do what \u2013 provide contraception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reid responded by arguing that women are essentially enslaved in Missouri.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve left off, Claire, that in your state it\u2019s illegal for a pregnant woman to get an abortion, so they\u2019ve also gone after no-fault divorce,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you\u2019re pregnant and you\u2019re in a marriage with an abusive spouse, you can\u2019t even get a divorce once you get pregnant. You become the property of both your husband and the state. They have joint ownership of you in the state of Missouri. That is a slave state as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is.<\/p>\n

Missouri law does ask for pregnancy status during no-fault divorce filings, and also asks<\/a> for information such as date of separation, social security numbers, and preferred custody agreements. However, nothing whatsoever is said about a woman being unable to obtain a divorce because she is pregnant<\/em><\/strong>; presumably, the pregnancy question is asked so that courts can be prepared to modify custody arrangements once the woman has given birth.<\/p>\n

Missouri law also does not say anything about women being property of their husbands or the state<\/em><\/strong>, but that didn’t stop Reid from engaging in vicious hyperbole. And McCaskill \u2014 a former senator, who seemingly would know better \u2014 merely nodded along and said nothing.<\/p>\n

This kind of rhetoric is nothing new for Reid. She’s also compared the pro-life movement to the Taliban<\/a>, and pro-lifers to slave traders<\/a>. It’s a despicable comparison, considering slave traders and terrorists regularly dehumanize others, and kill people whenever they like. It’s the pro-life movement that recognizes the inherent humanity of all people, from conception to natural death, and fights for their inherent right to life.<\/p>\n

Did Kamala Harris liken pro-lifers to child molesters?<\/h3>\n

Kimmel began by asking if Harris supported “reproductive rights” \u2014 a ludicrous question, considering how vocally and ardently pro-abortion Harris is, and how she launched<\/a> a “Reproductive Freedoms” tour on college campuses across the country. Promoting abortion appears to have become the entirety of her role<\/a> as vice president. Kimmel then followed up with a leading question, asking Harris if she ever imagined she would see Roe v. Wade<\/em> overturned in her lifetime. Harris, of course, answered no.<\/p>\n

“People know I started my career as a prosecutor,” she said. “You may not know why.” She then appeared to insinuate that protecting innocent preborn human beings further violates the bodies of sexual abuse survivors.<\/p>\n

“One of the reasons is my best friend in high school, I learned was being molested by her stepfather. So, she came to live with us. And I decided at a young age, I wanted to do the work of fighting to protect women and children from harm. And the idea that these laws would make no exception even for a survivor of a violation to their body? And to tell that woman, that person, you don’t have a right to make a decision about what happens to your body next? It’s immoral.”<\/p>\n

Calling pro-lifers immoral is nothing new<\/a> for Harris, though the apparent likening to child molesters is.<\/p>\n

As Stephanie Reynolds, who was conceived in rape, explained in Live Action’s “Pro-Life Replies,” abortion is not a solution to rape. \u201cAbortion does not erase the rape or undo the violence that the woman has suffered,\u201d she said. \u201cAs many rape survivors have poignantly testified, abortion is actually an obstacle to healing after rape. Abortion adds trauma to trauma, and it creates yet another innocent victim.\u201d<\/p>\n