When the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal in the U.S. for nearly half a century, it deprived American women of 'a constitutional right,' says Vice President Kamala Harris.
For more of Robert Costa's interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, watch "Face the Nation" Sunday.
The Biden administration concedes that its ability to undo the high court's action is limited, and that the most direct route to fully restoring abortion access to women would be for Congress to pass a law. For now, the administration is trying to do what it can — earlier Friday, as Harris stood next to President Biden, he signed aimed at helping women seeking abortions, by protecting their rights to medication abortions and their ability to travel to states where abortion is legal.
Costa asked Harris whether Democrats had erred in not acting earlier: "When you look back, did Democrats fail, past Democratic presidents, congressional leaders, to not codify Roe v. Wade over the past five decades?""I think that, to be very honest with you, I — I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believed that certain issues are just settled," she responded. "Certain issues are just settled.
The vice president also argued that other hard-won rights may be threatened now, like the rights of gay people to marry and even the rights of Americans to have access to voting.
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