Oprah and Diane von Furstenberg slam assault on women's reproductive rights

Oprah Winfrey and Diane von Furstenberg have doubled down on their support for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, saying that the alternative option would be unacceptable for women.

Speaking to CNBC, Winfrey said that women's reproductive rights had become one of the most pressing and divisive issues in the U.S. today, and that Harris was the only candidate who would preserve them.

"She [Harris] should be president of the United States for this moment in time, where decency, honor and respect – particularly for other women, and other women's bodies and their rights – is on the line," Winfrey told CNBC's Tania Bryer in an interview last month.

"The most basic primal choice is being able to decide when or how to have children, and whether or not you choose to bring children into the world and take on that responsibility. I think that's major for right now," the media mogul added.

Winfrey, who spoke in support of Harris at the Democratic National Convention last month, was joined in a shared interview with von Furstenberg, who echoed her comments. When asked what she thought of the new challenges to women's rights, she said it was "unacceptable."

"I'm a baby boomer: We thought we had invented freedom and been some part of the liberation," von Furstenberg said. "It's shocking, it's absolutely shocking and unacceptable,"she added.

Abortion rights have been a key issue on the campaign trail in the run-up to the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.

Harris, like incumbent President Joe Biden, has pledged to restore abortion rights at a federal level after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade decision in June 2022. Republican nominee Donald Trump has meanwhile said he would leave the matter up to individual