Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is doubling down on calling males to grow to be extra concerned in advocating for abortion rights.
In a brand new interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, Emhoff blamed former President Donald Trump for the chaotic penalties of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court docket in 2022.
“It’s flawed. That is all due to Donald Trump. He ran on a platform of ‘girls ought to be punished for in search of abortion.’ He mentioned that. There’s a video,” Emhoff argued.
“He ran on a platform of appointing Supreme Court docket justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade,” he continued. “They did simply that, and he’s for a nationwide abortion ban. Make no mistake the place he says, ‘I will likely be a protector of ladies.’ That’s but extra lies and extra gaslighting.”
Emhoff then lamented over how the assault on “a basic proper that had been on the books for 50 years” might have an effect on his household and different households throughout America.
“Take into consideration this, my 83-year-old mom is in some way going to get pleasure from extra rights than [my daughter] Ella. It’s flawed,” he mentioned.
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court docket formally reversed Roe v. Wade, the historic piece of laws that made entry to an abortion a federal proper in america.
Emhoff, who has been married to Vice President Kamala Harris since 2014, publicly urged for extra males to advocate for abortion rights earlier this yr.
“This is a matter of equity to girls. Ladies are dying,” Emhoff told NBC News in Could. “It’s affecting males’s skill to plan their lives. And it’s additionally a problem of what’s subsequent, what different freedoms are in danger. And these freedoms are affecting all People, not simply girls.”
Watch a clip from Emhoff’s interview with Psaki beneath.
