Hadley Duvall (photo by Lucy Valeski)
A new campaign ad from Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign features sexual abuse survivor Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant when she was 12 years old.
Duvall says in the 30-second spot , titled “Monster” that at the time she discovered she was pregnant, she “had options” that survivors of rape and incest no longer have after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Kentucky’s current abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest.
“I didn’t know what to do. I was a child. I didn’t know what it meant to be pregnant, at all,” Duvall says in the ad. “Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, girls and women all over the country have lost the right to choose, even for rape or incest.”
Trump appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe. He has boasted about the appointments, and said during a Sept. 10 debate with Harris that he would not sign a nationwide abortion bill into law, but did not answer whether he would veto such a ban.