'We've got to have these conversations out loud': VP Harris talks abortion in Pennsylvania
CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris continued her campaign push for reproductive rights in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, telling an audience in Montgomery County that the stakes were high for the November election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
“This is the moment we are in,” Harris said at the event at Salus University, where she was joined onstage by longtime friend, actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph. “We witnessed, about two years ago, the highest court in our land, the court of Thurgood and RBG, take a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America.” She referred to the late justices Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Harris has been speaking out on the campaign trail about the aftermath of the 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court with the Dobbs decision that ended federal abortion rights; Wednesday’s appearance was the fifth in five weeks where she’s spoken in a different state on the topic.
She has taken particular aim at Trump, whose stance on abortion has varied of late, but has included suggesting women’s pregnancies be monitored, a possible national abortion ban, leaving decisions about abortion laws up to the states, and leaving the door open to banning medication abortions.
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