Kamala Harris Wants The Department Of Justice To Stop States From Passing Restrictive Abortion Laws

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The Democratic presidential candidate’s new plan would mimic the Voting Rights Act.

have said they want to pass a law that would codify the landmark Supreme Court ruling — a “safety” net, of sorts, if, Harris’s campaign said, “simply... isn’t enough”; states could still pass restrictive laws, which would then have to be challenged by courts. Like the law codifying, Harris’s Reproductive Rights Act would have a slim chance chance of passing Congress with 60 votes in the Senate.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker have also released abortion rights plans that go beyond solidifyinginto federal law. Booker said he would create an “Office of Reproductive Freedoms” within the White House, and Warren promised a series of executive orders to roll back Trump administration rules.

But Harris’s plan is unique for the role it envisions for the Department of Justice on the front lines of stopping state-level abortion restrictions — something Democrats have been trying to do for years as more and more states chip away atA bill co-sponsored by Harris and many other Senate Democrats, the Women's Health Protection Act, lays out the basis by which Harris’s campaign says the DOJ would judge state laws — prohibiting states from banning abortions before fetal viability, a...

Harris, who served as California’s attorney general, has in part based her campaign, on her prosecutorial background, including a focus on policy wielding the power of the DOJ, the government’s law enforcement agency, in new and different ways. She has said she wants to use the DOJ to combat violent extremism, including white nationalism, by doubling the agency’s civil rights division, and would command up the agency’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to revoke licenses of gun dealers who break the law.

 

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I guess she’s forgetting about states rights

Gotta keep the darkies in check, right?

States rights, it’s in the constitution

I’m confused. So in the US the Department Of Health & Human Services is federal, right? Why then can any state make any laws regarding health then given it’s under federal jurisdiction?

Infanticide has no place in Civilized Society. The Barbaric practice of abortion must end. We can not move forward as long as those among us cling to such pagan and regressive practices.

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