Beyonc\u00e9 brings star power to Harris rally in Texas with abortion law in the spotlight<\/p>\n
Ondrea Cummings, a Texas woman who appeared in a new Harris campaign, became emotional as she shared her harrowing experience after a miscarriage at 16 weeks and needing an emergency abortion that she was denied under the state\u2019s law. A video played before her remarks showed her with a wound and scars that stretched down her body, from her breast to her pelvis, after a six-hour surgery in which she said doctors had to cut open her torso in order to save her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was finally close enough to death to deserve healthcare in Texas,\u201d said Amanda Zurawski, who has been a powerful surrogate for Harris on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n
Todd Ivey, an OB-GYN in Houston, addressed the crowd surrounded by a team of doctors and medical professionals in white coats. He emphasized the challenges of administering care to patients under a law that threatens physicians with jail time for performing abortions. Since the Texas\u2019s abortion law took effect the state\u2019s infant mortality has risen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n In a rare political speech, Beyonc\u00e9 endorses Kamala Harris at a Houston rally<\/p>\n Some of the speakers included Ondrea Cummings, the San Antonio woman who shared her story in full for the first time, telling the crowd that she developed sepsis after she could not receive treatment because of Texas\u2019 abortion ban; Amanda and Josh Zurawski<\/a>, the Texas couple who were the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging Texas\u2019 abortion bans; Shanette Williams, the mother of Amber Nicole Thurman<\/a>, the Georgia woman who died after being unable to receive timely medical care because of the state\u2019s abortion ban; and Yesenia Gamez, a military wife who voiced her concerns about the impact of abortion bans on IVF in a Harris campaign ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News <\/a><\/p>\n Michelle Obama hits the trail, warning what a Trump presidency would mean for women\u2019s health<\/p>\n Obama expanded beyond abortion, suggesting that increasingly limited access to types of women’s health care could also have serious ramifications for miscarriage care, cancer screenings and access to medical professionals.<\/p>\n \u201cYour wife or mother could be the ones at higher risk of dying from undiagnosed cervical cancer because they have no access to regular gynecological care,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Michelle Obama blasts Trump for \u2018gross incompetence\u2019 at Harris\u2019s Michigan rally<\/p>\n \u201cI am asking y\u2019all, from the core of my being, to take our lives seriously,\u201d she said, her voice swelling with emotion. \u201cIf we don\u2019t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage to your rage.\u201d<\/p>\n Abortion bans, she argued, affected men as well. If something happened during a pregnancy or a delivery and the doctor was prevented from providing care, \u201cyou will be the one praying that it\u2019s not too late. You will be the one pleading for somebody, anybody, to do something, and then there is the tragic but very real possibility that in the worst-case scenario, you just might be the one holding flowers at the funeral,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beyonc\u00e9 brings star power to Harris rally in Texas with abortion law in the spotlight Ondrea Cummings, a Texas woman who appeared in a new Harris campaign, became emotional as she shared her harrowing experience after a miscarriage at 16 weeks and needing an emergency abortion that she was denied under the state\u2019s law. A … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,172,202,194,218,450,352,91,384],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-abortion-bans","tag-democrats","tag-dobbs","tag-infant-deaths","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-miscarriage-management","tag-national-abortion-ban","tag-ob-gyn-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}