Speaking in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday called the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal right to an abortion “deeply harmful to our nation.”
and vowed to support eliminating the filibuster to codify abortion into federal law.
“I would urge everyone: pay attention to the Senate race here in Pennsylvania. I know I’m personally supporting John Fetterman, and I urge everybody else to do the same,” Harris said. In the governor’s race, Democrat Josh Shapiro, the current attorney general, has vowed to veto bills from the Republican-controlled Legislature that would place restrictions on abortions. Harris thanked Shapiro and outgoing Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf for fighting “for the principles and the people that have so much at stake right now.
Nationally, critics have assailed the Biden administration’s response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade as slow and lackluster.
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