Amid mounting pressure, President Joe Biden has announced he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race as the presumptive Democratic party nominee. In the process, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote in a letter posted to his X account.
He went on to share that he is supporting Harris. “Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year,” he said in a follow-up post on X. “Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump.”
Harris is not just an advocate of legalized unrestricted induced abortion — the direct and intentional killing of preborn children. She gained a reputation, as both the Attorney General of California and as the U.S. Senator for the state, as a staunch opponent of both pregnancy help centers and pro-lifers who attempted to expose information about potentially illegal activity perpetrated by the abortion industry. And as vice president, she went on a nationwide abortion tour in an effort to prove that access to abortion is her top priority.
“There is nobody who has fought as hard for abortion rights and access, and we are proud to endorse her in this race,” Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju said in a statement shortly after Biden dropped out of the race.
As California AG, Kamala Harris persecuted pregnancy resource centers and pro-life journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merrit.
As VP, she’s continued her crusade against pro-life Americans & the preborn.
A Harris presidency would be disastrous for human rights.
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 21, 2024
Attacking pregnancy centers
While acting as a U.S. Senator from California, Harris worked to protect abortion while targeting pro-life pregnancy centers (PRCs) that offer free support and resources to women facing challenges during pregnancy. She supported the Reproductive FACT Act, signed into law in 2015 when she was Attorney General. She called herself a co-sponsor of the law, which required that medically licensed pro-life PRCs post signs advertising that abortion was available for free or at low cost in the state. The law also required PRCs which did not provide medical care to display “large, conspicuous disclosures in all of their advertising materials” stating that they “weren’t qualified to do what they wanted to do,” according to Alliance Defending Freedom’s senior counsel Denise Harle.
Harle told Catholic News Agency (CNA), “In fact it was written right into the legislation that California was concerned with what it perceived as the problem of their [sic] being many, many pro-life pregnancy centers in the state, and the state acknowledges that was at odds with California’s – what they called their proud legacy of reproductive freedom. It was an undisguised attempt at targeting pro-life viewpoints for punishment.”
The Reproductive FACT Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2018. However, Anne O’Connor, National Institute of Family and Life Advocate’s Vice President of Legal Affairs and co-counsel in arguing the case before the Supreme Court, told CNA, “NARAL [Now Reproductive Freedom for All] lobbies against pregnancy centers in states and counties and municipalities to get laws passed that would silence pregnancy centers.”
She continued, “That’s exactly what NARAL did in California and with Harris’ support, they had this law passed against us in 2015 that was just on its face clearly unconstitutional, but it took a few years to go up through the Supreme Court, where Harris and her office aggressively defended the law till we finally had the Supreme Court give us justice. It’s frustrating when someone has an abortion rights agenda that just blinds them to our other rights like free expression.”
Harris also filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in First Resort, Inc. v. Herrera et al., a case regarding a City of San Francisco ordinance she supported that targeted PRCs by restricting their speech.
O’Connor has expressed concern that as president, Harris would target PRCs at the federal level.
Targeting pro-lifers
In 2015, Center for Medical Progress (CMP) exposed the illegal trafficking of the body parts of aborted babies when pro-life undercover journalists recorded top executives at Planned Parenthood negotiating prices for organs and tissue from the bodies of babies it had killed by abortion.
E-mail exchanges revealed that Harris and Planned Parenthood worked together to get a search warrant to obtain CMP’s full, unedited videos, which led to a raid of CMP founder David Daleiden’s home. Harris demanded that agents seize evidence from the investigation in that raid, including laptops and hard drives that contained the undercover footage.
Harris then gave National Abortion Federation attorneys access to the unreleased undercover videos. Billing records obtained by Fox News showed attorney Alexandra Laks requesting payment for “coordinate review of new videos” the day after the raid on Daleiden’s home took place.
Harris also then worked with Planned Parenthood to write a bill to make recording undercover conversations with “health care providers” a crime, passing copies of the bill back and forth with Planned Parenthood before submitting it.
An email exchange between Harris’ Special Counsel for Legislation Robert Sumner and Planned Parenthood’s California lobbying arm showed Sumner offering to be “helpful” to Planned Parenthood’s legislative priorities, reported CNA.
Meanwhile, as the attorney general, Harris refused to investigate the allegations against Planned Parenthood and other abortion industry insiders regarding the illegal trafficking of human body parts exposed in the videos.
After Harris became a U.S. senator, California’s new Attorney General, Xavier Becerra (now head of the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Health and Human Services), filed 15 charges against Daleiden and fellow undercover journalist Sandra Merritt, and then refiled more charges against them after 14 of the original 15 charges were dropped.
Attorney Brent Ferreira told Fox News at the time, “This case is the most egregious abuse of prosecutorial power that I have ever seen and I was a trial and appellate lawyer in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for [30] years.” In fact, it was so egregious that the U.S. Reporters Committee filed a friend of the court brief opposing the charges against Daleiden and Merritt.
Additional pro-abortion activity
Harris also assisted the abortion industry beyond the state of California. In 2016, she argued that a Texas law requiring abortion businesses to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers and for abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their facility “undermines both public health and a woman’s right to choose.” The law was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2016.
In addition, when Biden chose Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election, Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said Harris “has been a steadfast champion for reproductive rights and health care,” adding, “[H]er role in this election and, hopefully, in the White House will inspire and invigorate our movement …”
Following Biden’s announcement and endorsement of Harris, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose said on X, “As California AG, Kamala Harris persecuted pregnancy resource centers and pro-life journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. As VP, she’s continued her crusade against pro-life Americans & the preborn. A Harris presidency would be disastrous for human rights.”
