Vice President Harris said Thursday during a tour of a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic that Americans do not have to “abandon their faith” to support access to abortion.
“You don’t have to give up your faith or deeply held beliefs to agree that the government shouldn’t tell women what to do with their bodies,” Harris said after visiting the clinic. said in a statement.
“If she chooses, she will consult a priest, a pastor, a rabbi, an imam. But it’s probably the government telling her what she can and cannot do with her body. mosquito?”
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Vice President Harris toured an abortion clinic and highlighted abortion as a key election issue heading into 2024. (Stephen Maturen/AFP via Getty Images)
Harris is the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion facility. She said her visit to the family planning clinic was also intended to draw attention to women who travel to Minnesota from other states to obtain abortions.
“The work that’s going on here is to provide support to women who don’t live in Minnesota, because sadly, Minnesota is in a region that has passed laws denying reproductive health care. That’s why women have to travel, ‘Here we are,”’ Harris said.
Harris, who has campaigned for broader access to abortion, went on to say that “attacks on an individual’s right to make decisions about their own bodies are outrageous and, in many cases, downright immoral.”
Following Harris’ comments, the pro-life nonprofit Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America accused the vice president of participating in an “abortion fear tour.”
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“Kamala Harris has spent her entire career in the pocket of the Great Abortion,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement.
“It couldn’t be more clear who is aligned with the vast majority of Americans.”s “They support pregnancy centers and want fewer abortions, not more,” she said. “They are extreme and very out of touch with America.”
Sarah Traxler, the Planned Parenthood system’s chief medical officer, told reporters after Harris’ visit that the Planned Parenthood system has seen a 25% increase in abortion procedures since the Roe v. Wade reversal in June 2022. Ta.
Roe v. Wade was a landmark federal decision in 1973 that legalized abortion nationwide. Abortion is currently banned in more than a dozen states and restricted in another dozen.
“I’m proud to be an abortion provider,” Traxler said. “Since the Dobbs decision a year and a half ago, Minnesota has become a bastion of access to abortion care.”
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“I’ve cared for patients from all over the place,” she added.
Minnesota moved last year to strengthen its status as a haven for patients from restricted states who come to the state seeking abortions, and to protect the health care providers who serve them. Maine is currently considering a similar bill.
In January, Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signed emergency legislation to codify state abortion rights.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
