Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning in the state with the most restrictive abortion law of any battleground, criticized former President Donald J. Trump’s record on abortion.
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Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday.
Vice President Kamala Harris, standing in the state with the most restrictive abortion law of any campaign battleground, excoriated former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday for his role in the unraveling of a nationally recognized right to abortion.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Ms. Harris wagered once again that highlighting Mr. Trump’s record on abortion — including his appointment of three of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 — could persuade voters in a closely divided place. The Georgia Supreme Court this month reinstated a law that largely bans abortions beyond roughly six weeks of pregnancy.
“Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability — to take any accountability — for the pain and the suffering he has caused, or even to just acknowledge the pain and suffering that has actually happened,” Ms. Harris said at the rally, moments after a video played about a woman who died in 2022 after her medical care in Georgia was delayed.
Ms. Harris has made abortion access a centerpiece of her campaign. As the video played, she stood at the lectern, watching and sometimes shaking her head, her arms crossed, as relatives of the woman, Amber Thurman, sat in the audience. ProPublica reported in September that a state committee, whose reviews of individual cases are not generally made public, had concluded that Ms. Thurman’s death had been “preventable.”
Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, said in a text message: “President Trump has always supported exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, which Georgia’s law provides. With those exceptions in place, it’s unclear why doctors did not swiftly act to protect Amber Thurman’s life.”
Before turning to Ms. Thurman’s story, Ms. Harris had spent much of her address pressing her supporters to take nothing for granted in the campaign’s final weeks.
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