CHICAGO — Abortion access has been a focus of national Democrats’ messaging this election, and many speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago highlighted Texas with its restrictive abortion laws.
Amanda Zurawski, who sued Texas over its abortion laws after doctors failed to intervene to end her nonviable and life-threatening pregnancy, addressed the convention Monday night.
“Every time I share our story, my heart breaks,” Amanda Zurawski said. “For the baby girl we wanted desperately. For the doctors and nurses who couldn’t help me deliver her safely. For Josh, who feared he would lose me, too. But I was lucky. I lived.”
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, also touched on the issue of abortion access in her speech.
“As women are dying, he is bragging about overturning Roe,” Crockett said of Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump. “Kamala Harris is fighting for our reproductive rights to be restored.”
President Joe Biden also discussed the impact of the reversal of Roe v. Wade in his speech Monday.
“In its decision overturning Roe v. Wade, as you heard earlier tonight, the United States Supreme Court majority wrote the following, ‘Women are not without electoral or political power,’” Biden said. ”No kidding. MAGA Republicans found out the power of women in 2022. And Donald Trump is going to find out the power of women in 2024.”
Then, on Tuesday, Kate Cox, the Dallas woman who fled Texas to end an unviable pregnancy and generated national headlines, was introduced by Cecile Richards, daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and formerly president of Planned Parenthood, as Texas announced the state party’s votes for Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
“I had to flee my home," Cox said. "There's nothing pro-family about abortion bans. There's nothing pro-life about letting women suffer and even die."
Cox also told the crowd at the DNC that she’s pregnant again because she was able to access abortion care.
"My baby is due in January, just in time to see Kamala Harris sworn in as president of the United States," Cox said.
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