'Due to Donald Trump': MSNBC's Mika cries during harrowing interview
"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski brushed away tears Friday morning as a Georgia mother told how Donald Trump's actions as president pushed her to the brink of death upon the loss of a "very wanted" child.
Avery Davis Bell appeared on MSNBC Friday morning to urge voters to pick Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election in hopes of overturning restrictive abortion policies that are killing miscarriage victims such as herself.
"[Doctors] couldn't move up my operation until it was clear that my life was in danger," Bell, a scientist, explained. "Because of Donald Trump's Supreme Court, we're saying, 'The legislatures have something to say about when they should make this decision.'"
Brzezinski took a deep breath and asked, "This was a baby you very much wanted correct?"
Bell said yes, and added that her young son had also been very excited about having a new sibling.
"He hugged my belly every day...He would say 'Hug mama, hug baby," Bell said. "We are all devastated."
At this point Brzezinski brushed away tears.
"I'm so sorry about what you went through," she said. "Georgia...has the strictest bans," Brzezinski said, "of course, due to Donald Trump."
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Trump himself has claimed credit for the Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe v. Wade in June 2022, noting he was the president who appointed three of the justices behind the ruling.
Trump's campaign promise to women has been that they will "no longer be thinking about abortion" and that he will protect them, "whether they like it or not."
In her lengthy interview, a visibly tired Bell detailed the long wait she faced for conditions dire enough to allow doctors to save her life by removing the fetus from her womb.
Bell explained she was appealing to the media just two weeks later because time was running short and she blamed the Republican presidential nominee for the health crisis she suffered.
"I went into the hospital the same day I early voted, which was the only time I left bedrest between hospitalizations," said Bell.
"I have to speak out now because we are in the middle of a decision point where we can go one direction with Kamala Harris and have our rights are restored and protected and elevated," Bell said. "Or we can go in another direction, and bans like this can become more common across the country, and more mothers and children will be living as if we were 200 years ago, when many of us wouldn't have survived childbirth and many would have died."