DNC centers abortion rights as women tell personal stories

Texas mom of two Kate Cox said she was never a political person before she was denied an abortion last year for a pregnancy doctors told her wouldn't survive, and would risk the possibility of any future pregnancies. But on Tuesday night, she stood to help cast Texas' vote for nominee Kamala Harris in the Democratic National Convention roll call, announcing she's pregnant again with a baby due in January — she says, because of the abortion she was able to access out of state. 

Cox is one of the multiple women sharing her story at the DNC this week, as Democrats highlight what they call extreme abortion bans in many states in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. Although former President Donald Trump has said he wouldn't call for a national abortion ban, Trump told CBS News in an interview this week that he has "no regrets" about the overturning of Roe, something made possible by the conservative justices he nominated to the Supreme Court. 

Harris, who has said she would sign national protections for abortion access as soon as Congress passes legislation, is much more comfortable talking about abortion than is President Biden, who is Catholic. Mr. Biden has openly expressed his personal qualms with abortion, but he said last year that "Roe v. Wade got it right." But now with Harris as the nominee, that comfortability with the topic is playing out at the DNC.