Kamala Wants To End The Filibuster – This Time Over Abortion

In an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, Kamala Harris outrightly stated that she wanted to end the filibuster, specifically citing her desire to restore Roe v. Wade — or a national “right” to abortion.

“I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe. To actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”

Abortion is one of the few issues that Kamala Harris has been vocal about since the beginning of her campaign, and she’s used the issue to differentiate herself from Trump and establish and maintain an advantage among women voters. She and her fellow Democrats have repeatedly warned of a “national abortion ban” if Trump is elected, despite Trump himself saying in plain terms that he would veto any such legislation that made it to his desk.

Breitbart News reports:

Her call to end the filibuster is the furthest she has gone in her pledge to federalize abortion if she is elected in November. Harris has repeatedly said she would sign legislation to restore Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court overturned in 2022, and has made killing unborn babies in abortions central to her campaign. She has repeatedly refused to cite abortion restrictions she would support and falsely claimed that abortions do not happen later in pregnancy.

Since Harris began running for public office, a huge portion of her financial support has come from the abortion lobby, and some speculate that it influences her policies and practices in office. In pro-life activist circles, she’s well known for her ruthless persecution of citizen journalist David Daleiden after he revealed Planned Parenthood’s illegal sale of fetal body parts in a series of undercover videos.

Breitbart News continues:

Harris has previously called to end the filibuster but for a different reason. During her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris said she would back ending the filibuster to pass the radical Green New Deal, which is essentially a far-left socialist wishlist.

Nuking the filibuster would drop the 60 required votes to pass legislation to just 51 votes, enabling Democrats to ram through their radical agenda, Daines warned. That agenda, he said, includes packing the U.S. Supreme Court to 13 justices instead of nine, making Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico states to add four Democrat U.S. senators to the Senate, and conducting a federal takeover of election operations everywhere in the country.

In other words, the end of the filibuster means the end of America as we’ve known it. It obliterates every guard rail written into our founding documents to ensure checks and balances, and instead gives one party unlimited power and the necessary tools to keep it forever.

Previously West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema prevented the Democrats from ending the filibuster, but since both have announced their retirements, there is no sitting Democrat on record who would oppose its elimination if given the chance, making the stakes in November especially high for Republicans.

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