Harris refuses to make concessions to Republicans on any abortion legislation, including religious exemptions

Vice President Kamala Harris took a patient stance against making immoderate concessions to GOP lawmakers connected immoderate abortion authorities she would prosecute arsenic president, contempt nan likelihood of having divided authorities if elected. 

Harris, who has made nan rumor of abortion a hallmark of her statesmanlike campaign, has many times called for Congress to codify nan protections of Roe v. Wade into law. 

But erstwhile confronted by NBC News' Hallie Jackson astir what "specific concessions" she would make to Republicans successful bid to walk specified abortion legislation, Harris scoffed. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris said she would not make immoderate concessions to Republicans successful bid to walk abortion authorities arsenic president. (Screenshot/NBC News)

"What concessions would beryllium connected nan table? Religious exemptions, for illustration – is that thing that you would consider?" Jackson asked. 

"I don't deliberation we should beryllium making concessions erstwhile we're talking astir a basal state to make decisions astir your ain body," Harris responded.

Jackson past cited mean Republicans for illustration Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, aliases Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, arsenic lawmakers who would perchance backmost nan Democratic-led push for abortion access. 

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Harris would look an uphill conflict to get abortion authorities passed connected Capitol Hill if she's elected president but faces a Republican-controlled Congress. (Aaron Schwartz/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

"Would you connection them an oliva branch? Or is that disconnected nan table?" Jackson asked. 

"I'm not going to prosecute successful hypotheticals because we tin spell connected pinch a assortment of scenarios," Harris responded. "Let's commencement pinch nan basal fact. A basal state has been taken from nan women of America, nan state to make decisions astir their ain body. And that cannot beryllium negotiable, which is that we request to put backmost successful nan protections of Roe v Wade, and that is it."

"But what if you can't do that?" Jackson pressed. "What if you can't get that passed, and you want to prevention lives successful Florida and successful Texas and successful Georgia? What do you do astatine that point?"

"I'm not going to spell down that rabbit spread pinch you correct now," Harris said. 

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Abortion has been a motivating governmental rumor for Democrats since nan Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade successful 2022.  (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

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The NBC anchor interjected, telling nan vice president, "it's a mobility that's retired there, because it's not a guarantee that Democrats will triumph control of Congress." 

"Well, I'm doing everything I tin to make judge that we do," Harris changeable back.