Harris: Authoritarians can point to Dobbs decision to justify taking away rights

Vice President Kamala Harris stated that with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the U.S. has lost authority on the world stage to talk about human rights.

"And the thing about who we are as a country, as Americans, is we have been able to walk in these rooms with confidence, talking about the importance of democracies, talking about the importance of rule of law, human rights, We have held ourselves out to be a role of all of those things, which gives us then some legitimacy, dare I say authority, to then talk about human rights around the world, talk about the importance of rule of law in the world," Harris said. 

"When you are a role model, people watch what you do to see if it matches up to what you say. So nations around the world are watching this and saying, what's going on there? Do they really stand for democracy? Do they really have a legitimate ability to tell other countries what to do?"