Vice President Kamala Harris mocked pro-life protesters during a campaign stop in Wisconsin this week, telling a man who yelled “Jesus is Lord” that he was attending the wrong event.
“We will move forward because ours is a fight for the future, and it is a fight for freedom — for freedom. Like the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do,” Harris said to the crowd.
After the man shouted, Harris told him that they were “at the wrong rally.”
“I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street,” she added.
Her speech came just hours before she notably skipped the Al Smith Catholic charity dinner, an event where major political figures from both parties traditionally gather.
The Vice President Harris has previously made comments insinuating that people of faith can still support abortion “without having to give up their religious beliefs.”
Talking to reporters in May 2022, Harris said that there is no conflict between religious faith and support for the widespread protection over abortion.
“For those of us of faith, I think that we agree, many of us, that there’s nothing about this issue that will require anyone to abandon their faith, or change their faith,” Harris said at the time, adding “it’s simply saying that the government should not have the ability to decide what an individual does with her own body — let her make that decision with her pastor or her rabbi, or whoever she consults.”
The Catholic Church classifies abortion as a sin, saying that human life begins at conception.
