Nikema Williams on Deaths Linked to Ga.’s Abortion Ban: Brian Kemp and Donald Trump ‘Made This Possible’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BLITZER: “Have the deaths of these two Georgia women who Vice President Harris spoke about today, changed our people in your state view, the restrictions on abortion?”
WILLIAMS: “Wolf, I listened to the vice president‘s impassioned remarks today in Atlanta. And when she said where you have been, I know where they‘ve been. I know where Republican governor Brian Kemp was. He signed this bill into law. I know where Donald Trump was. Donald Trump bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade, making this possible. So when I hear the pain in the family‘s voices of these two women who lost their lives, preventable deaths, Wolf, I know that we had choices. These were preventable deaths and we had Republican leaders in this country like Brian Kemp and Donald Trump, who made this possible. I was in the state Senate when this law was being debated on the floor and I read story after story after story of women who would be impacted by this law, we had experts, we had doctors who came in to testify in committee so that legislators couldn‘t say they didn‘t know what the consequences would be. We knew and we warned them and now all of this is coming to light in a nightmare that is living out not just in Georgia, but across the country and if Donald Trump has his way, his Project 2025 agenda will ban abortion nationwide, and we will see this across the country. So, Wolf, there‘s a clear contrast on the ballot, and we must elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States so that she can stop this. And we got us in her a democratic house and Senate because we passed the Women‘s Health Protection Act in the House, and we were waiting, Joe Biden was waiting to sign this into law, but we could not get Republicans to stand up and do the right thing, to protect women in this country. But wolf, I am not going to stop until we get protections codified in the law so that we can protect women. This is my home state. I gave birth to my own son at a Piedmont hospital. So, this is personal for me, Wolf.”