Originally published at crisis magazine
What explains Kamala Harris’ fanaticism on abortion?
The strident militancy of Kamala Harris on the abortion issue really is quite striking, shocking, and extraordinary. Her 2024 campaign further underscored what we already knew about her based on her actions in California and then in Washington as the state’s junior senator in the U.S. Senate.
On the Senate Judiciary Committee, a hostile Harris badgered Catholic judicial nominees such as Judge Brian Buescher for having the audacity to be a member of the Knights of Columbus, a group guilty of the cardinal sin of being “anti-choice.” Senator Harris pondered whether Buescher was fit to serve on the U.S. District Court in Nebraska because he belonged to an organization that she disparagingly described as “an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men.”
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At the California attorney general’s office, Harris hounded David Daleiden for daring to expose the abortion industry’s insidious “fetal parts” business. Her target was not the parts peddlers but the man who exposed them. She also prosecuted crisis pregnancy centers while being a stalwart for Planned Parenthood, a group close to her heart. The lady loathes pro-lifers.
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