Hadley Duvall is an activist who first told her story during the 2023 Kentucky governor’s race. She has become the face of women's reproductive rights in the Commonwealth and across the nation.
“I was raped by my stepfather after years of sexual abuse. At age 12 I took my first pregnancy test. And it was positive.
That was the first time I was ever told, you have options.” Duvall continued, saying that many women and girls across the country no longer have a choice “because of Donald Trump's abortion bans.”
“He calls it a beautiful thing. What is so beautiful about a child having to carry her parent’s child?”
Duvall, who is from Owensboro, said she will continue to speak out for other victims and support the Harris Walls ticket, telling the crowd that Harris would “sign a national law to restore the right to an abortion.”
Duvall then introduced Governor Andy Beshear, who slammed what he called extreme laws surrounding reproductive rights. Beshear said, “Trump says people are absolutely thrilled that women have their basic rights eliminated. JD Vance says women should stay in violent marriages and that pregnancies resulting from rape are simply inconvenient. Their policies give rapists more rights than their victims. That's not inconvenient. It's just plain wrong.”
When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade, Kentucky's near-total abortion ban went into effect. The state’s law does not allow exceptions for rape or incest.
