BBCThe 2024 presidential election is the primary because the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v Wade, which protected the nationwide proper to an abortion.
The gender divide has been distinguished on this election, with polls suggesting Kamala Harris has a bonus amongst girls and former President Donald Trump is having fun with an identical lead amongst males.
The BBC has been talking to girls voters about how they’re contemplating gender and abortion as they solid their ballots within the closing days of the marketing campaign.
Michelle works as a high quality engineer in Arizona. The 38-year-old is a registered Republican, however plans on voting for Kamala Harris.
I am involved about girls’s rights and girls’s well being care. I am not a one-issue voter, however that may be a large one. I work within the medical sector and I used to be very personally affected by the overturn of Roe v Wade as a result of I wasn’t capable of get entry to a whole lot of the medication I wanted. No one was positive of what the legality was… regardless that they’re used for different issues.
The entire Republican stance is smaller authorities and do not let authorities make my private selections, so why are they making an attempt to legislate what a lady can do together with her physique?
[A Harris presidency] would imply that every one the issues that my dad and mom advised me once I was youthful had been true – that simply since you’re a lady doesn’t suggest that you’re restricted.
This nurse practitioner from Texas voted for Trump over the past presidential election and plans to again him once more.
[Trump] has undoubtedly stated issues that he in all probability ought to have unsaid. I must shake my finger at that, particularly as a lady, however I’ve but to listen to something that will make me change my thoughts about my vote.
I am not voting persona. I am voting coverage. I haven’t got to marry the person. I haven’t got to take care of him. I’ve to take care of his insurance policies.
On abortion, [Harris] will not be giving a gestational parameter of how late someone can get an abortion. That can not be-open ended. I used to be a NICU [neonatal intensive care unit] nurse for 17 years… I care about girls’s rights. I care about girls. The mom is the primary affected person. Nonetheless, that’s the turn-off to me that she will not give a solution to that.
This Democrat from Illinois plans to vote for Harris on election day. She beforehand backed the Democratic ticket in 2020, voting for Joe Biden.
I’m undoubtedly involved concerning the route that reproductive rights are moving into elements of the nation. I really feel that Trump’s makes an attempt to speak that he understands why [reproductive rights] is a crucial subject to girls has fallen woefully quick.
I believe Harris has an innate understanding of its significance, simply being a lady and a lady of color. Would I like her to put out her plans a bit of bit extra to doubtlessly broaden reproductive rights? Completely. However Trump has set the bar so low that she may actually proceed to not even point out it and he or she would nonetheless be doing a greater job.
[A Harris presidency] brings tears to my eyes simply to consider. I’ve a nine-year-old daughter and he or she’s sufficiently old to begin having aspirations and to begin taking note of the world round her.
This library assistant voted for Trump in 2020, however now stays undecided and is contemplating “writing in” a candidate – casting a vote for somebody who will not be formally operating.
This ain’t my first rodeo and I’ve gotten to the purpose in my life the place I can look previous the promoting they’re doing for 2 particular teams.
It is great that we’ve got Harris as a feminine severely operating for the presidency and that she has been a vice-president and has some expertise. However Trump, when he was in workplace, I wasn’t too upset with what he was doing.
I would not thoughts having a feminine president however a few of Harris’s political doctrine and what I believe is true do not line up.
Angela is a graduate scholar in Iowa. A Democrat, she backed Biden within the final presidential election and plans to vote for Harris.
I actually would love this to be a second of celebration as we elect a lady of color to our highest workplace, however sadly with how tight the election is in opposition to Trump and the way disappointing [Harris’s] marketing campaign has been on a few of the points that matter to me, it has been laborious to be as celebratory as I would like.
Clearly abortion is a large subject that must be addressed, however I am not essentially pleased, I ought to say, with both candidate’s approaches in addressing the difficulty.
I perceive Harris has a coverage the place she desires to codify Roe v Wade, however I believe girls’s rights and points lengthen exterior of simply abortion entry. Trump may be very wishy-washy on the difficulty of ladies’s rights, so it is laborious to pin him down on any stance.
This retired Republican who plans on voting for Trump. She additionally backed the previous president in 2020.
I believe [Trump] is actually the one risk as a result of I believe Harris is simply clueless and incompetent. I believe she can be a catastrophe for this nation, simply listening to her mumble and evade. I simply get a horrible feeling about her.
I’m pro-choice, really, inside cause. Not a late-term abortion. I do not agree with that. However I believe Trump by actually relegating [legislation] to the states themselves, he is being smart.
Harris does not have a lot to run on in order that’s her massive promoting level with girls. She does not have a lot substance to her, in different phrases, so she simply hammers on and on concerning the abortion subject.
This unbiased voted for Biden within the 2020 presidential election and voted by mail this 12 months supporting Harris.
Reproductive rights for ladies are large for me as a lady, particularly residing within the state of Florida the place there’s an modification on the poll that may assure the safety for abortion rights.
I actually need to assist a celebration that is going to assist reproductive rights for ladies and never simply girls, however for everyone, as a result of what’s to say it isn’t going to unfold elsewhere? It begins with girls, normally, but it surely goes on and on.
Our authorities is not less than 50 years behind the instances for lots of issues – particularly different international locations all through the world having higher illustration. I’ve a niece that I like dearly. The truth that she may see [a female president], and only for that to be a standard factor for her, can be large.
This unbiased voter from Georgia describes herself as a left-leaning reasonable. Due to her religion and anti-abortion views, she’s not supporting Harris or Trump this 12 months.
I used to be really going to vote for Harris, however then she began doubling down on how abortion is reproductive well being… I am a Catholic. I’m pro-life.
The issue that I bumped into is that I do not understand how any Catholic can vote for someone who spews the stuff like what we noticed [from Trump] at Madison Sq. Backyard not too long ago. I take the injunction to welcome the stranger and to feed and dress very severely.
So beneath these circumstances, I’ve received no person I can vote for.
This retired Texas resident voted for Biden within the final presidential election and has voted early in assist of Harris.
I get so scared. We really cannot return. It’s extremely horrifying to me. I had extra rights than my granddaughter goes to have in her future and that is not proper.
It’s so disturbing that it’s so shut. [Trump] is a felon out on bail. I do not perceive the Republicans. They was once the regulation and order [party], supposedly, and it is now this.
I believe rather a lot [of women] are popping out and saying, ‘Why are you telling us what to do with our our bodies?’ Abortion is a private factor and it is as much as the physician and the girl. It’s none of my enterprise.
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