Joe Biden’s vice-president, Kamala Harris, will embark on a tour of 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 guarantee of abortion. IVG in 2022.
The subject should strongly weigh on the presidential election of November 2024, in which Mr. Biden is a candidate.
“Extremists across our country continue to wage a full-scale 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,” added the Democrat.
His tour will begin with an event in Wisconsin on January 22, the 51st anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, which guaranteed Americans’ federal right to abortion since 1973 until the Supreme Court overturned it last year.
Since then, many states have severely restricted or even banned abortion on their soil and thousands of Americans have been forced to undertake painful and expensive trips to have an abortion.
Recently, a young woman with a very risky pregnancy, who asked a court to be able to have an abortion in Texas where abortions are prohibited with rare exceptions, had to leave this conservative state to obtain an emergency abortion after a legal imbroglio.
