Vice President Harris heads to Florida on Wednesday ahead of the state’s six-week abortion ban taking effect, and will use the opportunity to criticize former President Trump for his recent comments on reproductive rights if he is re-elected. .
Harris will give a speech in Jacksonville, where Biden campaign officials will discuss Florida’s new law, the Trump abortion ban, which has been in place since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022. He explained that it is one of the
“This ban applies to many women even before they know they’re pregnant. This tells us that the extremists who wrote this ban don’t even know how women’s bodies work. Or they… They just don’t care,” Harris would say, according to excerpts of her remarks.
The vice president also echoed President Trump’s recent comments in an interview with Time magazine that it should be up to each state to decide whether to monitor a woman’s pregnancy and whether to prosecute a woman for her pregnancy. I would also refer to it.
“Florida, the contrast couldn’t be more stark. Under Donald Trump, it’s no surprise that women are being surveilled and punished by our government,” Harris is expected to say in her speech. “Joe Biden and I have different views. We believe politicians should never get between women and doctors.”
Harris’ visit comes a week after President Biden visited Tampa, Florida, where he also spoke out against the state’s abortion restrictions.
A Florida court ruling in early April upheld the state’s 15-week abortion ban and allowed the six-week ban to go into effect after 30 days. He also approved a ballot measure that would protect access to abortion if voters pass it in November.
The renewed attention on abortion in the state has certainly turned some Democrats red in recent election cycles, raising the prospect of a race in the state, which is also President Trump’s home state. There is widespread optimism regarding the
In a statement released through his campaign, Biden said Trump is directly responsible for Florida’s abortion access situation.
“Mr. Trump is worried that voters will hold him accountable for the brutality and chaos he has caused. He is right. President Trump stripped American women of their rights and freedoms,” Biden said. Told. “This November, voters will teach him a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with America’s women.”
Abortion is a key issue leading up to the 2024 election and poses a significant vulnerability for President Trump. The former president has repeatedly claimed credit for the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade for appointing three conservative justices.
President Trump has sought to avoid this problem by arguing that abortion policy should be left up to individual states through legislation or referendum, while Republican-led states enact restrictive policies. But it also drew attacks from some on the right who expressed disappointment that the former president had not accepted federal minimum standards for abortion.
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