According to the American press, this is the first case. US Vice President Kamala Harris visited an abortion clinic on Thursday as Democrats look to put the issue at the center of the campaign.
“We must be a nation that trusts women,” Kamala Harris said during her visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota (North), according to the White House. “The attack on an individual’s right to make decisions about their own body is scandalous,” added Joe Biden’s candidate in the November presidential election, who has been leading a nationwide tour of abortion rights since January. Never before has a president or vice president visited a clinic that practices voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), American media report.
Ahead of the vice president’s trip, the White House said it would focus on the impact of “extreme abortion bans” enacted in many conservative states since the U.S. Supreme Court returned in June 2022 on federal guarantees of this constitutional right, leaving it up to states to legislate on this issue. This earthquake prompted a total of about twenty American states to ban or very strictly limit voluntary abortion.
“Extremists”
About two dozen anti-abortion activists demonstrated on the street outside the clinic during Kamala Harris’ visit with signs that said, among other things, that “abortion is not medical care.” Calling opponents of abortion rights “extremists,” the vice president praised the clinic’s staff, who she said have “dedicated their lives to the profession of providing health care in a safe environment that gives people dignity.”
Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in November’s presidential election, said he was “proud” to have contributed to the legal turnaround in 2022 by appointing conservative judges during his 2017-2021 presidency. Kamala Harris, a figure in Biden’s camp on the issue, intends to use the statement against the 77-year-old tycoon on the campaign trail.
Abortion remains a historical fault line in the United States, even as polls show a majority of Americans now favor abortion rights. This, in part, allowed Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic but a strong defender of this right, to avoid a crushing defeat by Republicans during the midterm legislative elections in the fall of 2022. The Democratic camp wants to believe that it will benefit from the same momentum in November during the presidential election.
Source: Le Parisien
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