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00:00Good afternoon, everyone.
00:10My name is Dr. Keisha Reddick.
00:12I'm an OB-GYN here in Georgia, and I specialize in high-risk obstetrics.
00:19I speak to you today with a heavy heart.
00:23As you know, earlier this week, we received news reports about two preventable deaths
00:30in Georgian women under the state's cruel abortion ban.
00:36These reports confirm what we already knew, that abortion bans unleashed by Donald Trump
00:45are putting women's health and lives in peril.
00:51Take it from me, every day I care for patients in Georgia under this extreme ban.
00:59I see fear in my patients' eyes.
01:02I see women who are left the state to get the care that they need and those who are
01:08unable to do so.
01:10I watch medical students and other physicians avoid coming to our state or packing up their
01:18lives to move across the country in pursuit of building a life where they won't face
01:24jail time for upholding their oath.
01:29But back here in Georgia, we are left with fewer health care providers in a state facing
01:37the worst maternal mortality rates in the country.
01:42One of my patients who's given me permission to discuss her, Callie, was forced to leave
01:48our state to get the health care that she needed.
01:52She recently shared her story as a part of the Harris-Waltz Fighting for Reproductive
01:58Freedom bus in Georgia two weeks ago.
02:01She introduces herself as an artist, a follower of Christ, and a dedicated mother.
02:09Last year, she was thrilled to find out that she was pregnant with twins.
02:14But testing revealed that one of her twins would not survive.
02:19She received counseling from multiple physicians and was ultimately left with the decision
02:26to terminate one of her twins so that the other viable one could survive.
02:33She actually had to go to New York.
02:37Because of the delay in treatment, she eventually had complications in her pregnancy, complications
02:43that included a high white blood cell count and other labs that trended towards sepsis.
02:50Luckily, Callie survived, and she now shares her story on behalf of everyone who cannot.
03:00I became a doctor to take care of people, to support women through their pregnancies,
03:07to save lives, but laws like the Georgia abortion ban are designed to handcuff me.
03:16Because of Donald Trump and his allies, I am forced to raid the risk of going to prison
03:23against my own oath to take care of patients.
03:27I have two daughters.
03:29My oldest daughter is here today.
03:31Neither one of them are going to have the same rights that I did growing up.
03:37But she has hope.
03:39Why?
03:40Because she has Vice President Kamala Harris.
03:53Vice President Harris has been fighting her whole career to protect women.
03:58She stood up for the rights of women and girls as a prosecutor, as an attorney general, as
04:05a senator, and as the Vice President.
04:10Since Roe v. Wade was returned, she has been leading the charge to restore reproductive
04:16freedom.
04:17She has traveled across the country to lift up the voices of patients and medical providers
04:24and advocates.
04:26She's listened to our stories, and she's made sure that the country is listening too.
04:33She is the first sitting Vice President in history to visit a reproductive health clinic,
04:40And as President, she will sign a bill to restore those rights.
04:56No one is more committed to reproductive freedom than Vice President Harris.
05:02I wish I could say the same for Donald Trump.
05:06He thinks that he knows better than medical professionals like me.
05:12And if given a second term, he will go even further to attack our reproductive freedoms.
05:20That is why we must do everything to elect Vice President Harris and Tim Walz.
05:35Our lives depend on it.
05:38I am grateful to be here with you all today to shed light on this health care crisis in
05:46our state and in the states across our country.
05:50And I'm truly honored to introduce to you our next president and true champion in this
05:59fight, Vice President Kamala Harris.
06:05Kamala Harris!
06:07Kamala Harris!
06:09Kamala Harris!
06:11Kamala Harris!
06:31Can we please hear it for Dr. Redick, please.
06:35Please have a seat, everyone.
06:41Please have a seat.
06:42It's so good to be back in Atlanta.
06:43Thank you all.
06:47You know, I just want to say a thank you.
06:52I just want to say about Dr. Reddick, you know,
06:54some of you may have seen I did an event last night
06:59with Oprah Winfrey.
07:00And it highlighted so many tragic stories.
07:08But it also highlighted so many important issues,
07:11which is why everyone is taking time out of your busy lives
07:13to be here this afternoon.
07:16And it highlighted the importance of a Dr. Reddick.
07:20Because the courage, Dr. Reddick,
07:22that you are showing in the face of these arcane and immoral
07:28laws to stand so publicly and talk about your commitment
07:33to your oath and to the health and well-being of people
07:38who need to be seen and treated with dignity
07:42is so extraordinary.
07:43And I do believe in moments of crisis.
07:47The world has a way of revealing the heroes among us.
07:52And I would say, Dr. Reddick, you are one of them.
07:55Thank you very much.
08:01And thank you to all of the elected and community leaders
08:05who have joined us today.
08:08Thank you, everybody, everybody who is here.
08:11So Georgia, this election right here is a fight for the future.
08:16It is a fight for the future.
08:18And it is a fight for freedom, for freedom.
08:23And we know, in America, freedom is not to be given.
08:29It is not to be bestowed.
08:32It is ours by right.
08:35It is ours by right.
08:40And that includes the fundamental freedom
08:44of a woman to be able to make decisions about her own body
08:49and not have her government telling her what to do.
08:54Yes, we must trust women.
09:01And we all know how we got here.
09:04When Donald Trump was president, he
09:06hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme
09:09Court, the court of Thurgood and RBG,
09:15with the intention that they would overturn the protections
09:18of Roe v. Wade.
09:20And as he intended, they did.
09:23And now more than 20 states have Trump abortion bans,
09:27extremists that have passed laws that criminalize health care
09:32providers, doctors and nurses, and punish women.
09:36In two states of those states, they
09:39provide for prison for life, prison for life,
09:45for health care providers, for simply providing
09:48reproductive care, the care they so earnestly and rightly
09:53believe must be delivered.
09:56All Trump abortion bans.
09:59And think about this.
10:01Many of these bans make no exception,
10:03even for rape and incest.
10:06Now, many of you know I started my career as a prosecutor,
10:09specializing in crimes of violence
10:11against women and children.
10:13What many of you may not know is why.
10:16So when I was in high school, my best friend, I learned,
10:21was being molested by her stepfather.
10:25And I said to her, look, you got to come and stay with us.
10:28I called my mother.
10:29She said, of course she does.
10:30And she came and she stayed with us.
10:32And so I made the decision early in my life
10:35that I wanted to do the work that
10:36was about protecting the most vulnerable among us
10:40and doing the work that was about giving them
10:42dignity in the process.
10:45And so, well, thank everybody here
10:47for being here standing in solidarity
10:50around the importance of that.
10:53And so I say to you, then, from that experience
10:55and from the work that I've done,
10:57the idea that someone who survives
11:01a crime of violence to their body, a violation
11:05of their body, would not have the right
11:09to make a decision about what happens to their body next,
11:15that's immoral.
11:17That's immoral.
11:18And let us agree, and I know we do,
11:22one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held
11:27beliefs to agree.
11:28The government should not be telling her what to do.
11:31If she chooses, if she chooses, she
11:39will talk with her pastor, her priest, her rabbi, her imam.
11:44But it should not be the government or Donald Trump
11:47telling her what to do with her body.
11:54And think about it.
11:56The stories that Dr. Reddick shares with us,
12:00the stories we heard last night, the stories
12:02we've been hearing for two years,
12:04one in three women in America lives in a state
12:08with a Trump abortion ban.
12:10This includes Georgia and every state in the South
12:15except Virginia.
12:17Think about that when you also combine
12:20that with what we know has been longstanding
12:22neglect around an issue like maternal mortality.
12:26Think about that when you compound that
12:28with what has been longstanding neglect of women
12:33in communities with a lack of the adequate resources
12:36they need for health care, prenatal,
12:40during their pregnancy, postpartum.
12:43Think about that.
12:44And these hypocrites want to start
12:47talking about this is in the best
12:49interest of women and children.
12:51Well, where you been?
12:53Where you been when it comes to taking care of the women
12:57and children of America?
13:00Where you been?
13:01Come on.
13:02Come on.
13:03Come on.
13:04Come on.
13:05How dare they?
13:07How dare they?
13:11Come on.
13:12Come on.
13:13Come on.
13:16And we understand the impact of these bans
13:23and the horrific reality that women and families,
13:28their husbands, their partners, their parents,
13:30their children are facing as a consequence every single day.
13:38Since Roe was overturned, I have met
13:40women who were refused care during a miscarriage,
13:44wanted to have a child, suffering a miscarriage.
13:48I met a woman, I've actually met several,
13:51who were turned away from the emergency room.
13:55One, at early stages after the Dobbs decision came down,
13:58told me with tears, she was with her husband,
14:01about how only when she developed sepsis
14:04did she receive emergency care.
14:05Only when she developed sepsis did she receive emergency care.
14:11And now we know that at least two women,
14:15and those are only the stories we know,
14:19here in the state of Georgia, died,
14:22died because of a Trump abortion ban.
14:27One, and we heard about her story last night,
14:33a vibrant 28-year-old young woman.
14:38She was ambitious.
14:40I talked with her mother and her sisters about her.
14:43And they described such an extraordinary life
14:48of a person.
14:50She was excited.
14:51She was working hard.
14:53She was a medical assistant.
14:55She was going to nursing school, raising her six-year-old son.
15:00She was really proud that she had finally
15:03worked so hard that she gained the independence.
15:07Her family was telling me that she
15:08was able to get an apartment in a gated community with a pool
15:11for her son to play in.
15:14She was so proud, and she was headed to nursing school.
15:18And her name, and we will speak her name, Amber Nicole Thurman.
15:26Amber Nicole Thurman.
15:29Amber Nicole Thurman.
15:31That's right.
15:33And she had her future all planned out,
15:36and it was her plan.
15:39You know, let's understand.
15:40Just take pause on that for a moment.
15:43She had her plan.
15:45What she wanted to do for her son, for herself,
15:49for their future.
15:53And so when she discovered that she was pregnant,
15:56she decided she wanted to have an abortion.
16:01But because of the Trump abortion ban here in Georgia,
16:04she was forced to travel out of state
16:07to receive the health care that she needed.
16:11That she needed.
16:13But when she returned to Georgia,
16:15she needed additional care.
16:18So she went to a hospital.
16:21But you see, under the Trump abortion ban,
16:24her doctors could have faced up to a decade
16:29in prison for providing Amber the care she needed.
16:37Understand what a law like this means.
16:40Doctors have to wait until the patient is at death's door
16:48before they take action.
16:49You know, on the other side of my, you know,
16:54the other folks, Trump and his running mate,
16:58and they'll talk about, oh, yeah, but I do
17:01believe in the exception to save the mother's life.
17:05OK, all right, let's break that down, shall we?
17:10Let's break that down.
17:12Let's break that down.
17:16So we're saying that we're going to create public policy that
17:22says that a doctor, a health care provider,
17:26will only kick in to give the care that somebody needs
17:29if they're about to die?
17:32Think about what we are saying right now.
17:35You're saying that good policy, logical policy,
17:40moral policy, humane policy, is about saying that a health care
17:49provider will only start providing that care when
17:54you're about to die?
18:01And so Amber waited 20 hours.
18:0720 hours, excruciating hours, until finally she
18:13was in enough physical distress that her doctors thought
18:21they would be OK to treat her.
18:28But it was too late.
18:30She died of sepsis.
18:32She died of sepsis.
18:36And her last words to her mother, which her mother,
18:40as you know, tears up and cries every time she speaks it,
18:47last words to her mother, promise me
18:50you'll take care of my son.
18:57So I met last night, and I spent time
19:00with Amber's mother and her sisters.
19:02And they spoke about Amber, a daughter, a sister, a mother,
19:13with the deep love that you can imagine
19:16and how terribly they miss her.
19:19And their pain is heartbreaking.
19:23It's heartbreaking.
19:25Amber's mother, Sinead, told me that the word preventable
19:31is over and over again in her head
19:34when she learned about how her child died.
19:38The word preventable, she cannot,
19:41she can't stop thinking about the word
19:44that they spoke to her.
19:46It was preventable.
19:49Because you see, medical experts have now
19:51determined that Amber's death was preventable.
19:57And through the pain and the grief
20:00of her mother, who courageously told her story,
20:05I promised her, as she has asked,
20:08that we will make sure Amber is not just
20:12remembered as a statistic, that she will not just
20:17be remembered as a statistic.
20:22So that people will know she was a mother, and a daughter,
20:26and a sister, and that she was loved,
20:30and that she should be alive today.
20:33And that she should be alive today.
20:39And many of us remember, there's so many leaders here,
20:43from two years ago when the Dobbs decision came down.
20:47And we knew this could happen.
20:56There is a word preventable, and there
20:59is another word, predictable.
21:07And the reality is, for every story
21:10we hear of the suffering under Trump abortion bans,
21:14there are so many other stories we're not hearing.
21:17But where suffering is happening every day in our country.
21:22An untold number of people suffering.
21:26Women who are also being made to feel as though they
21:31did something wrong.
21:33The judgment factor here is outrageous.
21:40Being made to feel as though they are criminals.
21:45As though they are alone.
21:49So to those women, to those families,
21:54I say on behalf of what I believe we all say, we see you.
21:59And you are not alone.
22:01And we are all here standing with you.
22:07Standing with you.
22:10You are not alone.
22:12You are not alone.
22:27So Georgia, and we will not be silent.
22:32And we will not be silent.
22:34But this is a health care crisis.
22:37This is a health care crisis.
22:38And Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis.
22:42He brags about overturning Roe v. Wade.
22:45In his own words, quote, I did it
22:48and I'm proud to have done it, he says.
22:51He is proud.
22:53Proud.
22:54That women are dying.
22:57Proud.
22:59That doctors and nurses could be thrown in prison
23:02for administering care.
23:05Proud.
23:07That young women today have fewer rights
23:09than their mothers and grandmothers.
23:12How dare he?
23:14How dare he?
23:16And in our debate last week.
23:24Well, that was fun.
23:38But, and I know everyone here paid attention to the words,
23:41though, the words, right?
23:46I'm trying to get another debate.
23:48We'll see.
23:50But in our debate last week, remember when he said,
23:55everyone wanted Roe v. Wade to be overturned.
24:02Well, exactly.
24:03I don't know who everyone is either.
24:05Because women have been arrested and charged
24:10for miscarriages.
24:11They didn't want that.
24:14I was speaking with a physician who is here,
24:17who has, in her professional experience,
24:20been administering care to girls.
24:26And what we know is that 12 and 13-year-old survivors
24:30of assault are being forced to carry a pregnancy to term.
24:34They didn't want this.
24:38And couples just trying to grow their family
24:40being cut off in the middle of IVF treatments,
24:44they didn't want this.
24:47And on that last point, you probably saw,
24:49this week for the second time,
24:51Republicans in the United States Senate
24:53blocked a bill that would protect access to IVF treatment.
25:00Now, consider, among the multitude of ironies,
25:04the fact that on the one hand, these extremists
25:06want to tell women they don't have the freedom
25:09to end an unwanted pregnancy.
25:11And on the other hand, these extremists
25:13are telling women and their partners
25:15they don't have the freedom to start a family.
25:20OK.
25:21Take it back to me.
25:23And they want to restrict access to contraception as well.
25:29And now Donald Trump says that he would personally
25:31cast his vote in Florida, which is where he now lives,
25:37to support their extreme abortion ban,
25:40just like the one that is here in Georgia.
25:42We all must take a vote.
25:43And.
25:52Well, that's a whole different policy discussion
25:55that we'll have for another day.
26:00But let's understand, if he is elected again as president,
26:06Donald Trump will go further.
26:08We know what we're up against.
26:10And we must speak of the stakes.
26:14We must remind.
26:16Everybody here knows, but we got to remind
26:18our friends, our neighbors, our co-workers,
26:21the stakes are so high.
26:25Because if he is elected again, I
26:28am certain he will sign a national abortion ban, which
26:32would outlaw abortion in every single state.
26:35And he would create a national anti-abortion coordinator.
26:40Look at Project 2025.
26:44And force states to report on women's miscarriages
26:47and abortions.
26:48It's right there.
26:49I can't believe they put that Project 2025 in writing.
26:55They literally put it in writing.
26:56They bound it.
26:59They handed it out.
27:03I mean, they are simply out of their minds.
27:13And it's clear that they just don't trust women.
27:20Well, we trust women.
27:22We trust women.
27:26And like Dr. Reddick said, when Congress
27:28passes a bill to restore reproductive freedoms
27:32as president of the United States,
27:34I will so proudly sign it back into law.
27:37I will so proudly sign it into law.
27:42Proudly sign it into law.
27:48So 46 days to go.
27:54And let us remember that momentum
27:57on this and so many issues, momentum is on our side.
28:03Let's remember, since Roe was overturned,
28:07every time reproductive freedom has been on the ballot,
28:11from Kansas to California to Kentucky, in Michigan,
28:16Montana, Vermont, and Ohio, the people of America
28:22have voted for freedom.
28:23The people of America have voted for freedom.
28:29And not just by a little, but by overwhelming margins,
28:33from so-called red states to so-called blue states,
28:37providing and making clear also, this
28:41is not a partisan issue.
28:43This is not a partisan issue.
28:45And it is proving that the voice of the people
28:49has been heard and will be heard again.
28:52And will be heard again.
28:55So 46 days to go in probably the most consequential election
29:03of our lifetimes.
29:06And with that then, today I ask, Georgia,
29:10are you ready to make your voices heard?
29:14Do we trust women?
29:17Do we believe in reproductive freedom?
29:21Do we believe in the promise of America?
29:25And are we ready to fight for it?
29:29And when we fight, we win.
29:33God bless you.
29:34And God bless the United States of America.