A new campaign ad entitled “Monster” from Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign features sexual abuse survivor Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather from the age of five, and became pregnant when she was 12 years old.
“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.”
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, writes reporter Kim Lyons.
“Donald Trump did this,”
Duvall said. “He took away our freedom.”
The soundtrack to the “Monster” ad is the song “When the Party’s Over” by Billie Eilish, who on Tuesday endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket “because they are fighting to protect our reproductive freedom.”
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