US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday said Donald Trump “has no idea what he’s talking about” when it comes to women’s health care issues, pointing to the former president’s past remarks on abortion and mocking his “father of IVF” comments.
“Now Donald Trump has a very different view on reproductive freedom. And he refuses continuously, he refuses continuously to acknowledge the harm he has caused,” Harris said in her second rally of the day in battleground Wisconsin, reports CNN.
“See for yourself. Let’s roll a clip,” said Harris, before a video was played of Trump’s comments vowing to protect women and touting his role in overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Harris pushed back on Trump’s remarks that “everyone” — including Republicans and Democrats — wanted Roe v Wade to be overturned.
“No, Donald, everybody did not want Roe v. Wade to be overturned. Women are dying of sepsis because they cannot get the healthcare they need, they did not want this. Couples just trying to grow their family are being cut off in the middle of IVF treatments. They did not want this,” she said.
Harris also ridiculed Trump’s declaration that he is the “father of IVF,” comments the former president made during a Fox News town hall in Georgia focused on women’s issues. “And now, I mean, it just gets more unbelievable sometimes. And now the man calls himself the father of IVF. I mean, what does that even mean?” Harris said before laughing.
“And all of that, well, he is the one who, by the way, is responsible for it being at risk in the first place,” she argued.
She continued, “What is sadly interesting, I think, is that when you listen to Donald Trump talk, it becomes increasingly clear, I think, he has no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to the healthcare of women in America.”
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