'I'm not a one-issue voter, but this is huge': Women on how abortion shaped their vote

The 2024 statesmanlike predetermination is the archetypal since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which protected the nationalist close to an abortion.

The sex disagreement has been salient successful this election, with polls suggesting Kamala Harris has an vantage among women and erstwhile President Donald Trump is enjoying a akin pb among men.

The BBC has been speaking to women voters astir however they are considering sex and termination arsenic they formed their ballots successful the last days of the campaign.

Michelle works arsenic a prime technologist successful Arizona. The 38-year-old is simply a registered Republican, but plans connected voting for Kamala Harris.

I'm acrophobic astir women's rights and women's wellness care. I'm not a one-issue voter, but that is simply a immense one. I enactment successful the aesculapian assemblage and I was precise personally affected by the overturn of Roe v Wade due to the fact that I wasn't capable to get entree to a batch of the drugs I needed. Nobody was definite of what the legality was... adjacent though they're utilized for different things.

The full Republican stance is smaller authorities and don't fto authorities marque my idiosyncratic decisions, truthful wherefore are they trying to legislate what a pistillate tin bash with her body?

[A Harris presidency] would mean that each the things that my parents told maine erstwhile I was younger were existent - that conscionable due to the fact that you're a miss doesn't mean that you are limited.

This caregiver practitioner from Texas voted for Trump during the past statesmanlike predetermination and plans to backmost him again.

[Trump] has decidedly said things that helium astir apt should person unsaid. I would person to shingle my digit astatine that, particularly arsenic a woman, but I person yet to perceive thing that would marque maine alteration my caput astir my vote.

I'm not voting personality. I'm voting policy. I don't person to wed the man. I don't person to woody with him. I person to woody with his policies.

On abortion, [Harris] is not giving a gestational parameter of however precocious idiosyncratic tin get an abortion. That cannot be-open ended. I was a NICU [neonatal intensive attraction unit] caregiver for 17 years... I attraction astir women's rights. I attraction astir women. The parent is the archetypal patient. However, that is the turn-off to maine that she won't springiness an reply to that.

This Democrat from Illinois plans to ballot for Harris connected predetermination day. She antecedently backed the Democratic summons successful 2020, voting for Joe Biden.

I americium decidedly acrophobic astir the absorption that reproductive rights are going successful parts of the country. I consciousness that Trump's attempts to pass that helium understands wherefore [reproductive rights] is an important contented to women has fallen woefully short.

I deliberation Harris has an innate knowing of its importance, conscionable being a pistillate and a pistillate of colour. Would I similar her to laic retired her plans a small spot much to perchance grow reproductive rights? Absolutely. But Trump has acceptable the barroom truthful debased that she could truly proceed to not adjacent notation it and she would inactive beryllium doing a amended job.

[A Harris presidency] brings tears to my eyes conscionable to deliberation about. I person a nine-year-old girl and she's aged capable to commencement having aspirations and to commencement paying attraction to the satellite astir her.

This room adjunct voted for Trump successful 2020, but present remains undecided and is considering "writing in" a campaigner - casting a ballot for idiosyncratic who is not officially running.

This ain't my archetypal rodeo and I've gotten to the constituent successful my beingness wherever I tin look past the advertizing they're doing for 2 circumstantial groups.

It's fantastic that we person Harris arsenic a pistillate earnestly moving for the presidency and that she has been a vice-president and has immoderate experience. But Trump, erstwhile helium was successful office, I wasn't excessively upset with what helium was doing.

I wouldn't caput having a pistillate president but immoderate of Harris's governmental doctrine and what I deliberation is close don't enactment up.

Angela is simply a postgraduate pupil successful Iowa. A Democrat, she backed Biden successful the past statesmanlike predetermination and plans to ballot for Harris.

I truly would emotion this to beryllium a infinitesimal of solemnisation arsenic we elite a pistillate of colour to our highest office, but unluckily with however choky the predetermination is against Trump and however disappointing [Harris's] run has been connected immoderate of the issues that substance to me, it's been hard to beryllium arsenic celebratory arsenic I'd like.

Obviously termination is simply a immense contented that needs to beryllium addressed, but I'm not needfully happy, I should say, with either candidate's approaches successful addressing the issue.

I recognize Harris has a argumentation wherever she wants to codify Roe v Wade, but I deliberation women's rights and issues widen extracurricular of conscionable termination access. Trump is precise wishy-washy connected the contented of women's rights, truthful it's hard to pin him down connected immoderate stance.

This retired Republican who plans connected voting for Trump. She besides backed the erstwhile president successful 2020.

I deliberation [Trump] is truly the lone anticipation due to the fact that I deliberation Harris is conscionable clueless and incompetent. I deliberation she would beryllium a catastrophe for this country, conscionable listening to her mumble and evade. I conscionable get a horrible feeling astir her.

I americium pro-choice, actually, wrong reason. Not a late-term abortion. I don't hold with that. But I deliberation Trump by truly relegating [legislation] to the states themselves, he's being sensible.

Harris doesn't person overmuch to tally connected truthful that's her large selling constituent with women. She doesn't person overmuch substance to her, successful different words, truthful she conscionable hammers connected and connected astir the termination issue.

This autarkic voted for Biden successful the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and voted by message this twelvemonth supporting Harris.

Reproductive rights for women are immense for maine arsenic a woman, particularly surviving successful the authorities of Florida wherever determination is an amendment connected the ballot that volition warrant the extortion for termination rights.

I truly privation to enactment a enactment that's going to enactment reproductive rights for women and not conscionable women, but for everybody, due to the fact that what's to accidental it's not going to dispersed elsewhere? It starts with women, usually, but it goes connected and on.

Our authorities is astatine slightest 50 years down the times for a batch of things - particularly different countries passim the satellite having amended representation. I person a niece that I emotion dearly. The information that she could spot [a pistillate president], and conscionable for that to beryllium a mean happening for her, volition beryllium huge.

This autarkic elector from Georgia describes herself arsenic a left-leaning moderate. Because of her religion and anti-abortion views, she's not supporting Harris oregon Trump this year.

I was really going to ballot for Harris, but past she started doubling down connected however termination is reproductive health... I'm a Catholic. I americium pro-life.

The occupation that I ran into is that I don't cognize however immoderate Catholic tin ballot for idiosyncratic who spews the worldly similar what we saw [from Trump] astatine Madison Square Garden recently. I instrumentality the injunction to invited the alien and to provender and clothe precise seriously.

So nether those circumstances, I've got cipher I tin ballot for.

This retired Texas nonmigratory voted for Biden successful the past statesmanlike predetermination and has voted aboriginal successful enactment of Harris.

I get truthful scared. We really can't spell back. It's precise frightening to me. I had much rights than my granddaughter is going to person successful her aboriginal and that's not right.

It is truthful disturbing that it is truthful close. [Trump] is simply a felon retired connected bail. I don't recognize the Republicans. They utilized to beryllium the instrumentality and bid [party], supposedly, and it's present this.

I deliberation a batch [of women] are coming retired and saying, 'Why are you telling america what to bash with our bodies?' Abortion is simply a idiosyncratic happening and it's up to the doc and the woman. It is nary of my business.

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