Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has her worried about the “integrity” of the Supreme Court. “I think this is an activist court,” Harris said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It means we’ve had an entrenched right for nearly half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies, as an extension of who we’ve decided to be, the privacy rights that all people have,” Harris said. “And this court immediately took that constitutional. And we suffer as a nation for it.” “This gives me great concern about the integrity of the Court as a whole,” he continued. Her remarks come months after the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that made access to abortion a right. Since May, abortion rights advocates have feared that the Supreme Court would throw out Roe v. Wade. Fears began when Politico published a leaked draft of the opinion, in which Justice Samuel Alito called the decision “egregiously flawed in the first place.” The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked nationwide protests. Since the decision was made public, a number of prominent people have criticized the decision. Attorney General Merrick Garland also condemned the court’s decision, calling it a “devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States.” In overturning Roe, the Supreme Court placed the question of the legality of abortion in the hands of individual legislatures and effectively made it illegal in at least 22 states to obtain an abortion. Restrictions are expected to be added to several others.
