As president, Joe Biden leaned on Kamala Harris to be the White House’s voice of unflinching support for abortion rights. Now If she takes the baton as the new presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, she’s expected to take that fight to her campaign against Donald Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks March. 14, 2024, at Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minn. Harris has said "everything is at stake" with reproductive health rights in November's presidential election. President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from being the Democratic Party's presidential nominee and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris changes the campaign's tone.
Harris, however, became the first vice president to visit a clinic run by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She undertook a nationwide tour focused on reproductive rights. And when Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio was named Trump’s running mate, Harris used her next campaign appearance to criticize him for blocking protections for in vitro fertilization.
She stumped for a Biden administration rule setting minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes in April. Sixty-three percent of adults said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, based on a poll conducted in April byfrom their own victory on the issue. Trump angered some members of his base by saying he would leave decisions on abortion to the states.
Some pollsters have said Harris would have to do more than just campaign against Republican efforts to roll back abortion access to truly motivate voters because so many issues, such as inflation, the economy and immigration, are competing for attention. But the Supreme Court returned the case to the district court in Texas where it was filed, and the GOP attorneys general of three states — Idaho, Kansas and Missouri — have joined the case as plaintiffs. Whether the courts accept the states as viable challengers remains to be seen. But if they do, the justices could soon be asked again to determine the fate of the abortion pill.
Although the administration has taken some important steps,"new expensive drugs keep coming out," Mendelson said."So, if you look at the perception of consumers, they do not believe the cost of drugs is going down."
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