The contenders sharply criticized the ban, the nation’s strictest, casting it as a severe blow to women’s rights.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow May 15 at 12:01 PM Contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday sharply criticized the Alabama Senate’s passage of the country’s strictest abortion ban, casting it as a severe blow to women’s rights.
“Rolling back the clock on basic women’s human rights and civil rights, I think, has to be fought with every tooth and nail,” she said. “This is a fight that women cannot lose.” Sen. Kamala D. Harris was among the Democratic contenders who criticized the Alabama Senate’s passage of the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban. “They need to check their hypocrisy,” she said of Alabama state legislators, describing them as “the same kind of people who also stand in the way of what women need in terms of a ban on preexisting conditions, to have access to issues like prenatal care.
Former vice president Joe Biden criticized Republicans in Alabama, Georgia and other states where strict antiabortion measures have been passed, including Florida and Ohio, saying that they “are ushering in laws that clearly violate Roe v Wade and they should be declared unconstitutional.”
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