Har­ris pledges to sign bill ‘to restore repro­duc­tive free­dom’ as pres­i­dent in Wis­con­sin speech

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris sug­gest­ed she would sign fed­er­al abor­tion pro­tec­tions into law dur­ing a speech in Wis­con­sin on Thurs­day evening.

“One does not have to aban­don their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree, the gov­ern­ment should­n’t be telling her what to do with her body,” Har­ris said, refer­ring to women.

“When Con­gress pass­es a bill to restore repro­duc­tive free­dom nation­wide, as Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, I will proud­ly sign it into law.”

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Har­ris has made abor­tion rights a cor­ner­stone of her 2024 cam­paign, and has spo­ken on the issue fre­quent­ly in her capac­i­ty as Pres­i­dent Biden’s vice pres­i­dent. 

Democ­rats are hop­ing that con­tin­ued fall­out from the Supreme Court over­turn­ing Roe v. Wade in 2022 will be a potent polit­i­cal cud­gel in Novem­ber. In the pre­vi­ous midterm races, it was par­tial­ly cred­it­ed with aid­ing them in keep­ing the Sen­ate and blunt­ing Repub­li­cans’ mar­gin of vic­to­ry in the House.

Har­ris said on Wednes­day evening that Trump “would ban abor­tion nation­wide” and like­wise insti­tute a ban on con­tra­cep­tives – both stances the ex-pres­i­dent has explic­it­ly denied.

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While Demo­c­ra­t­ic law­mak­ers have ral­lied around fed­er­al abor­tion leg­is­la­tion to cod­i­fy it into law, Repub­li­cans have insist­ed it’s an issue best left up to the states.

Mod­er­ate GOP law­mak­ers fac­ing tough re-elec­tion bat­tles have empha­sized that they would not sup­port any fed­er­al abor­tion bans.

Abor­tion-relat­ed issues are on the bal­lot in sev­er­al states in the Novem­ber elec­tions, includ­ing the bat­tle­ground states of Neva­da and Ari­zona. Democ­rats hope it will be a moti­va­tor for peo­ple who are nor­mal­ly apa­thet­ic to elec­tions to turn out and vote blue.

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“Ours is a fight for the future, and it is a fight for free­dom. Free­dom, like the fun­da­men­tal free­dom of a woman to make deci­sions about her own body and not have her gov­ern­ment tell her what to do,” Har­ris said Wednes­day.

The Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee (RNC) slammed Har­ris before her appear­ance in bat­tle­ground Wis­con­sin, with Chair­man Michael What­ley say­ing in a state­ment, “Har­ris’ vision for Wis­con­sin is an even more dan­ger­ous­ly lib­er­al ver­sion of the past four years. Kamala Har­ris broke Wisconsin’s econ­o­my, but Pres­i­dent Trump will fix it.”

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