A Texas woman who gave birth prematurely suffered sepsis and nearly died, and a Louisiana woman who said restrictive abortion laws prevented her from getting medical help for a miscarriage is now lobbying to run for President Joe Biden as Democrats highlight women`s rights.
Amanda Zurawski and Kaitlyn Joshua will travel to North Carolina and Wisconsin over the next two weeks to meet with doctors, local officials, and voters. Biden’s campaign sees its story as powerful evidence of the growing medical danger for many women as Republican abortion restrictions complicate health care.
“The subject of abortion is a very heavy subject, and I understand that,” said Joshua, 31, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “But I also understand and believe that the Biden and Harris administrations are the only ones that can do anything to come close to banning abortion and then also delve deeper into research and understanding of women’s health in general.
Biden and Democrats see reproductive health as a key driver of the 2024 election, as the president and his proxies blame Republican Donald Trump, whose judicial appointments The ruling paved the way for the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruling in 2022, overturning abortion rights codified by Roe v.
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Trump has both taken credit for overturning Roe, suggested that abortion should be legal within 15 weeks, and promised to issue a statement outlining his policy this week. Support for abortion access motivated women to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, giving Democrats unexpected success.
At the emergency room in Baton Rouge, doctors examined her but did not confirm that she had miscarried or discuss medical options, she said. “Something as seemingly simple as dealing with a miscarriage can’t even really be diagnosed anymore,” Joshua said. Joshua and Zurawski will be in Raleigh, Durham, and Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday, a state Biden hopes to flip.
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The state enacted a law banning most abortions after 12 weeks, overriding the Democratic governor’s veto; they will visit Milwaukee, Eau Claire, and Madison, Wisconsin, a state Biden won in 2020. Republicans in the state Assembly tried to put a statewide referendum on the April ballot banning abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy — more restrictive than current law — but the legislative session ended without a vote from the State Senate.
“People don`t understand how serious the situation is and how dark it is,” Zurawski said She was in her second trimester, after 18 months of fertility treatments, when she went into premature labor and was told the baby would not survive.
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Doctors said they could not intervene to perform an abortion because Zurawski was not medically dangerous. Zurawski then had to stay in the intensive care unit for several days. She just returned from a family trip to Disney World and said, ‘‘I think I’ll come back from this trip with the one-year-old and put him down for a nap. “But instead, I did this interview to help campaign for Biden,” Zurawski said.
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