The 2024 presidential election is less than three months away. The first debate between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the current vice president, and Republican former President Donald Trump is set for Sept. 10, but you don’t have to wait until then to know where Harris stands on several major issues on the minds of conservative women this election.
When it comes to abortion, gender ideology, and parental rights, it’s hardly a secret where Harris stands. Actions speak louder than words, and the current vice president has made her policy positions on those issues clear time and again throughout her political career.
Abortion
In 2010, Harris was elected attorney general of California and served in the position until becoming a U.S. senator in 2017.
While state attorney general, Harris executed “a very extreme, unconstitutional, and explicitly pro-abortion agenda,” says Christiana Kiefer, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative nonprofit law firm.
After California passed a law forcing pro-life centers to advertise abortion services, Harris sought to enforce the law against the centers.
“Alliance Defending Freedom had the privilege of representing a pro-life organization there in California challenging that law,” Kiefer explained. “As attorney general, [Harris] doubled down and defended the law, which we ultimately did win [the case] before the United States Supreme Court” in a 2018 ruling.
The case, according to Kiefer, is one “clear example of how [Harris is] willing to compel the speech of pro-life voices … and to attempt to use force of law to push that radical pro-abortion agenda.”
She calls Harris’ position on abortion “extreme,” pointing also to her support while serving in the Senate of “legislation that would force abortion on all 50 states through all trimesters of pregnancy.”
Gender Ideology
“I would say that the Biden-Harris administration has made radical gender ideology really a foundational policy position of their administration,” Kiefer says.
One of the Biden-Harris administration’s first actions in January 2021 was to release “new executive orders redefining biological sex in federal law to include gender identity,” the attorney said.
President Joe Biden and Harris went even further when their Department of Education issued changes to the definition of sex in Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bans discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs. Biden’s changes to Title IX took effect Aug. 1 and swung the door wide open for men who “identify” as women to compete on female sports teams and enter female-only spaces in states that have not filed lawsuits against those changes. Federal courts have enjoined the changes in 26 states.
Parental Rights
The Biden-Harris administration has not only promoted gender ideology, but has advocated for it at the expense of parental rights, Kiefer says.
“We’re seeing school districts across the country that are secretly socially transitioning children at school, behind their parents’ backs, and in violation of parental directions and parental wishes,” Kiefer says, calling this the “downstream effects” of the Biden administration’s “radical gender ideology” push.
“Kamala Harris as vice president has supported these policies, and we have no reason to believe that she would do anything else in a future potential administration,” she adds.
Kiefer joins the “Problematic Women” podcast for a bonus episode to discuss Harris’ record in California state government and as vice president.
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