President Biden is scheduled to meet with health care workers to discuss abortion rights following the conclusion of Roe v. Wade during a visit to Virginia for re-election campaign rallies.
After the rally, Biden will be joined by Vice President Harris, First Lady Jill Biden, and Emhoff's second son, and will have private discussions with health care providers, including about sexual and reproductive issues, his re-election campaign said. Leaders of rights groups are also expected to be included.
Biden will also meet privately with Amanda Zulawski, one of five women who sued the state of Texas last year for denying them abortions while facing pregnancy complications. Although the baby had a heartbeat, her doctors told her they couldn't treat her when she was given time to live. When she became septic, the hospital agreed she was sick enough to induce labor and she gave birth to a child, who died.
At the rally, Biden, Harris and Emhoff will address “The 2024 Election Stake on Reproductive Freedom” to an audience of reproductive rights leaders and members, members of Congress, and grassroots advocates. The campaign announced that it is planned. .
The rally and debate highlighted that Democrats will retain the Senate in 2023, turning the Legislature blue and “rejecting” Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) efforts to place restrictions on abortion access. will be held in Northern Virginia. In 2020, Biden defeated former President Trump and won Virginia.
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At his rally, Biden plans to discuss the impact on women in states where the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade restricts or bans abortions. The president also made remarks Monday highlighting the “brutal reality” that Roe's final days leave behind for American women.
Harris is scheduled to discuss the so-called MAGA Republican attack on reproductive freedom at the rally. On Monday, she made remarks that directly tested President Trump on ending Roe v. Wade in Wisconsin, a key battleground state in 2024.
Biden's re-election campaign on Monday dropped an ad featuring Dr. Austin Dennard, a Texas obstetrician-gynecologist and mother of three children who were unable to obtain abortions in Texas. Dennard, who narrated the ad, placed the blame for his situation squarely on Trump.
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