Vice President Kamala Harris suggested she would motion national abortion protections into instrumentality during a code successful Wisconsin connected Thursday evening.
"One does not person to wantonness their religion oregon profoundly held beliefs to agree, the authorities shouldn't beryllium telling her what to bash with her body," Harris said, referring to women.
"When Congress passes a measure to reconstruct reproductive state nationwide, arsenic President of the United States, I volition proudly motion it into law."
Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning connected termination issues successful the last days of her campaign (Kylie Cooper for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Harris has made termination rights a cornerstone of her 2024 campaign, and has spoken connected the contented often successful her capableness arsenic President Biden’s vice president.
Democrats are hoping that continued fallout from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade successful 2022 volition beryllium a potent governmental cudgel successful November. In the erstwhile midterm races, it was partially credited with aiding them successful keeping the Senate and blunting Republicans’ borderline of triumph successful the House.
Harris said connected Wednesday evening that Trump "would prohibition termination nationwide" and likewise institute a prohibition connected contraceptives – some stances the ex-president has explicitly denied.
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Democrats person utilized termination arsenic a governmental cudgel since the Dobbs determination successful 2022
While Democratic lawmakers person rallied around national termination authorities to codify it into law, Republicans person insisted it’s an contented champion near up to the states.
Moderate GOP lawmakers facing pugnacious re-election battles person emphasized that they would not enactment immoderate national termination bans.
Abortion-related issues are connected the ballot successful respective states successful the November elections, including the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona. Democrats anticipation it volition beryllium a motivator for radical who are usually apathetic to elections to crook retired and ballot blue.
They anticipation it volition thrust much voters to the polls successful cardinal states wherever it's connected the ballot (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
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"Ours is simply a combat for the future, and it is simply a combat for freedom. Freedom, similar the cardinal state of a pistillate to marque decisions astir her ain assemblage and not person her authorities archer her what to do," Harris said Wednesday.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) slammed Harris earlier her quality successful battleground Wisconsin, with Chairman Michael Whatley saying successful a statement, "Harris’ imaginativeness for Wisconsin is an adjacent much dangerously wide mentation of the past 4 years. Kamala Harris broke Wisconsin’s economy, but President Trump volition hole it."
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