Joe Biden's Vice President Kamala Harris will tour the United States in early 2024 to defend the right to abortion, which several American states have restricted or banned since the end of the federal abortion guarantee. IVG in 2022.
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The issue is likely to weigh heavily on the presidential election in November 2024, in which Mr. Biden is running.
“Extremists across our country continue to wage an all-out assault on hard-won freedoms,” Kamala Harris said in a statement released Tuesday, referring to her Republican opponents.
“I will continue to fight for our fundamental freedoms and bring together those across America who believe that every woman should have the right to make decisions about her own body, not the authorities,” the Democrat added.
His tour begins with an event in Wisconsin on Jan. 22, the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which guaranteed Americans the federal right to abortion since 1973 until the Supreme Court struck it down last year.
Since then, many states have severely restricted or even banned abortion on their territory, and thousands of Americans have been forced to endure painful and expensive journeys to obtain an abortion.
Recently, a young woman with a very risky pregnancy who asked a court to have an abortion in Texas, where abortion is banned with rare exceptions, had to leave that conservative state for an emergency abortion after a legal imbroglio.