We did not ask for this fight
but a fight we must
and we must.
There is no one I'd rather have leading
us than President Biden and Vice President Harris
in the wake in the wake of jobs, they are doing everything within their power
to defend reproductive freedom and the rights of women.
Can we give it up for the first lady of the United States
in States across our nation.
Extremists
have proposed and passed laws that criminalize doctors and punish women
laws that make no exception even for rape and incest
and let us all agree.
One does not have to abandon their faith
or deeply held beliefs
to agree. The government should not be telling her what to do with her body.
All these extremists
say they are motivated by the health and the well being
of the women and Children of America.
In reality,
they ignore
the crisis of maternal mortality.
Former President Trump hand picked
and picked
three Supreme Court justices because he intended
for them to overturn Roe.
He intended
for them to take
your freedoms.
He is the architect
of this healthcare crisis.
My name is Amanda
Zurowski
and I live in Austin, Texas.
In the spring of 2022.
My husband and I learned I was pregnant.
It was our first baby.
A girl,
Josh and I were over the moon.
I had undergone grueling fertility treatment for a year and a half.
So we were thrilled to finally have a baby on the way
as difficult as it was for us to get pregnant. My first trimester was smooth sailing
but then suddenly
at 18 weeks,
I suffered catastrophic complications.
My cervix had dilated prematurely
and as my membranes had ruptured,
there was no way to safely. Reverse course,
we were with 100% certainty
going to lose our baby girl.
We were devastated.
What I needed at that point
was an abortion
so I could safely
and with dignity deliver my daughter,
I needed to begin the healing process
both physically
and emotionally.
But unfortunately,
this was post road Texas.
The near total abortion ban had gone into effect just after my water broke
ending the pregnancy would have been considered an illegal abortion
and my doctor would be at risk of loss of her license
or even jail time.
I was told to wait,
I had to wait until I got so sick that my life was considered in danger.
One of the rare exceptions where a doctor can intervene in Texas.
It took three days in a near
death crash into septic shock
before my doctor could finally provide the health care. I desperately needed.
After stabilizing my vitals enough to deliver our baby.
Willow.
I crashed again
with another bout of sepsis and was transferred to the IC U I lived.
Others wouldn't be so lucky.
What I went through was nothing short of barbaric
and it didn't need to happen,
but it did
because of Donald Trump
over and over again. Donald Trump brags about killing Roe V. Wade.
It is unthinkable to me that anyone could cheer
on these abortion bans that nearly took my life.
That's why we need to reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank.
Thank you. Please.
Thanks for the introduction.
Do you realize how much courage it takes to do what she did?
We give so many young women hope
Joe and I had a chance to sit down
a
right to make deeply personal.
We're going to have this gonna go on for a while.
We got a couple more of these, I think
and so do the majority of Americans
and they still do.
We all know what happened a year and a half ago, a
new Supreme Court made an extreme decision overturning Roe V Wade
with their,
with their jobs decision.
But as long as I have the power of the presidency know this.
If congress were to pass the national abortion ban,
I will veto it
eventually.
Fine,
good luck
and let there be no mistake,
the person most responsible for taking away
this freedom in America is Donald Trump?
Li
listen to what he says,
Trump says, he's proud that he overturned Roe V Wade.
He said, and I quote,
there has to be punishment for the women exercising the reproductive freedom.
He describes the da
decision as a miracle
but for American women, it's a nightmare.
Ma
Republic are trying to limit all women in America
from getting a safe and effective medication
and get this
in the state of Alabama.
The attorney general is threatening to prosecute family members who help their
loved ones travel to another state to get health care they need.
That can't be America. That can't be America in 2024. It can't be
since the D
decision
all over this country from Ohio to Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Wisconsin,
and right here in Virginia, Americans have showed up women and men
of all races, all backgrounds,
voting to protect the freedom to choose
what I said is there's one other person who doesn't
have a clue about the power of women in America
is Donald Trump.
Well, I promise you in 2024 he's gonna find out about the power of you all.
Today is just a day to remember the anniversary of Roe V Wade.
Today is the day to call to action
with your voice, with your power, with your vote.
We can restore the protections that have been around
for over 50 years under Roe V Wade.
We can,
we can
well, to do that,
we need a new Congress.
Correct.
What happened?
Give me a Democratic House of Representatives and give me a bigger,
a bigger Democratic Senate
and we will pass a new law restored to protect
the Robie Wade and I will sign it immediately.
Yeah.
And let's remember
it was Donald Trump and his supreme court
who ripped away the rights and freedoms of women in America.
And it will be Joe Biden and Kamala Harrison,
all of you who are going to restore those rights for the women in America.
Let me close with this.
I believe 2024 is going to be the most important election we've had since 1864.
I mean,
and the reasons are clear,
democracy is on the ballot.
Freedom is on the ballot,
like the freedom to choose
the freedom to vote,
to feed and to love who you want.
The
freedom to go to work, go to school,
go to your house of worship without fear of being gunned down by a weapon of war.
So my question to you is simple.
Are you ready
to defend democracy?
Are you ready to protect our freedoms?
And are you ready to win this election?
Let's get this done. Talk to your families and friends,
organize your community,
you register to vote,
get people to the polls.
And let's remember who we are.
We are the United States of America
and there's nothing,
nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together.
May God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
in the bottom of my heart.
Thank you.
All right.
You heard me say this before.
Every time I'd walk out of my grandfather's house, he'd yell, Joey. Keep the faith.
Guess what?
My grandmother will know Joey. Spread it.
Let's spread the faith. Thank you.