Kamala Harris vows to sign federal pro-abortion law, pro-LGBT ‘Equality Act’ in campaign platform
Kamala Harris(LifeSiteNews) — Democratic Vice President and 2024 White House nominee Kamala Harris finally released a policy platform on Sunday, detailing an agenda that her campaign has taken pains to present as more mainstream than her actual record.
In a section titled “safeguard[ing] our fundamental freedoms,” Harris’s “New Way Forward” says she “will never allow a national abortion ban to become law. And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, she will sign it.” The platform adds that Harris will “fight to pass” the pro-LGBT “Equality Act,” which would force states and localities to accommodate nearly every aspect of the LGBT agenda across business, education, and public spaces.
The “Equality Act” would grant “transgender” males access to women’s private spaces, such as bathrooms, changing rooms, and shelters, require employers and schools to use “preferred pronouns,” allow gender-confused males to compete in female sports, and force health care professionals to facilitate “sex changes,” including for children, conservatives have warned.
“In 2004, she officiated some of the nation’s first same-sex marriages [sic] and as Attorney General, she refused to defend California’s anti-marriage equality statewide referendum,” Harris’ platform boasts.
It also promotes the “John Lewis Voting Rights and the Freedom to Vote Acts – laws that will enshrine voting rights protections, expand vote-by-mail and early voting, and more” (i.e., increasing opportunities for vote fraud and interfering with state election integrity efforts).
The platform additionally promises to “build an opportunity economy,” including through an expansion of child tax credits, government spending on rental properties and direct payments to first-time homebuyers, unspecified legal action against corporations over their prices, expanding the so-called Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), “strengthen[ing]” Social Security and Medicare by raising taxes on the rich, new government spending on infrastructure, education, child care, and so-called “green” energy initiatives.
Later, the campaign pledges to “ensure safety and justice for all” by promoting gun control, signing a so-called “bipartisan” border security bill previously rejected by Republicans because it would actually weaken immigration control in multiple ways, eliminating presidential immunity, and supporting “common-sense Supreme Court reforms—like requiring Justices to comply with ethics rules that other federal judges are bound by and imposing term limits.” Notably, it does not reference “court-packing,” a longstanding left-wing wish to slant the majority by expanding the number of justices.
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Finally, the Harris campaign vows to “keep America safe, secure, and prosperous” by “stand[ing] up to dictators,” “working to end the war in Gaza” with a “hostage deal and a ceasefire deal,” and investing in “industries of the future, from semiconductors to clean energy to artificial intelligence.”
Throughout the page, the campaign contrasts Harris’s agenda with “Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda,” a collaboration between conservative groups and Trump administration alumni, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, to develop a detailed set of plans and resources originally meant to help former President and 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump more effectively advance conservative goals and provide him with more reliable staff.
In 2022, Trump credited Heritage for “lay[ing] the groundwork and detailed plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.” This year, however, he has repeatedly denied knowledge of, affiliation with, and support for Project 2025, with his campaign going so far as to declare in July, “[r]eports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed.”
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Release of Harris’s official agenda follows the Democratic Party’s adoption of its latest party platform last month, which recommits to a host of left-wing goals such as unlimited abortion on demand.With both campaigns pledging to satisfy their respective bases in some ways while running to the center in others, polling aggregations by RealClearPolitics and RaceToTheWH continue to show Harris leading Trump in both national polling and Electoral College, although their standing has narrowed in recent days. Tuesday evening’s first presidential debate between the two is an opportunity for each candidate to reverse their fortunes.
