WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday framed the Supreme Court’s potential decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as a government incursion on personal liberties, saying that if conservative justices follow through with the decision, other rights could be threatened.
The leaked draft opinion, published earlier this month by Politico, indicated that a majority of the high court is prepared to overturn the 1973 landmark case, which found that the Constitution protects access to abortion and, by extension, the right to privacy. Harris said she was worried that such a ruling could eventually imperil gay marriage and access to contraceptives.
Overturning the landmark case “would be a direct assault on the fundamental rights to self-determination: to live and love without interference from the government,” Harris said, adding that the decision “is about our future as a nation. About whether we live in a country where the government can interfere in personal decisions.”
