(LifeSiteNews) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband planned to call abortionists to “thank them for their work” during a White House pro-abortion push in the lead-up to the first year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson, the historic Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
NBC News reported on June 19 that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff would “call doctors to thank them for their work and hear about how state abortion bans are affecting their practices,” as part of a bevy of pro-abortion efforts by the Biden administration to signal their opposition to the monumental pro-life victory of Dobbs.
Emhoff, the first-ever husband of a vice president, attended his wife’s speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday, in which she accused Supreme Court justices of triggering a “health care crisis in America” through the Dobbs decision, rhetorically asking the crowd, “How dare they?”
Harris shared last year that she called her husband to vent her anger after learning of the Dobbs decision, telling Vanity Fair, ““I was like, they bleep did it. I was so upset.”
The Biden-Harris team have distinguished themselves as the most radically pro-abortion White House incumbents in American history. On Thursday, the administration’s Justice Department sent out a “fact sheet” listing the department’s executive actions to uphold abortion, including its targeting of peaceful pro-life activists such as Paul Vaughn for alleged Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act violations and funding women’s abortion-related travel out-of-state.
NARAL Pro-Choice America president Mini Timmaraju praised Biden and Harris as “the strongest advocates” for abortion ever to occupy the Oval Office, as Biden and Harris separately joined the Democratic National Committee on Friday, June 23, to meet with three of the nation’s abortion giants, including: EMILYs List, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
The preceding Tuesday, First Lady Jill Biden hosted a roundtable conversation at the White House on June 20 with women from Texas, Florida, and Louisiana who were denied abortions following Dobbs. Jill used the event as an opportunity to play up her husband’s radically pro-abortion stance, saying he “is doing everything he can to fight back” but that his efforts depend upon legislation that will “make the protections of Roe v. Wade the law of the land once again.”
Abortion is now effectively abolished from the Texas border to West Virginia, as a block of 10 states that includes most of the South, along with a handful of other states, like the Dakotas and Idaho, have banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy with limited exceptions.
Birth data already indicates that pro-life laws enacted since the overturning of Roe v. Wade are already saving lives, including in Texas, where births spiked 4.7 percent last year.
A report released in April indicates that in the six months following the Dobbs decision last year, there were on average 5,377 fewer abortions every month, and that a total of 32,260 fewer abortions were committed in the U.S. during that time. Dr. Michael New, a pro-life statistician, has argued that these numbers actually understate the decline in American abortions.
To help counter the life-giving effects of Dobbs, Joe Biden issued an executive order to promote contraception one day prior to the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision.
The order aims to ensure that private insurance companies provide complete coverage of all contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including so-called emergency contraception, which acts as an abortifacient, and to promote increased access to contraception overall.