The legalization of abortion in the United States has been in discussion for decades, although the conversation intensified after the Justice will revoke the Roe vs. ruling in 2022. Wade, which since 1973 guaranteed the right to abortion in all states of the country. From that moment on, the legislation of each state can determine the legality of abortion, This decision generated a huge controversy throughout the countrywith great support from the conservative sector represented by Trump although highly rejected by the more liberal sectors.
Biden targeted “extremist” Republicans and “cruel” in a speech at the White House marking the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling.
“Today, in 2024, in the United States, women are rejected in emergency rooms, in rooms, forced to travel hundreds of miles to obtain basic health care,” the president warned.
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For her part, Kamala Harris said: “These Extremists are trying to push us back. We are not going to accept it,” he exclaimed before a crowd in Big Bend, Wisconsin, where he began a national tour on this topic.
Wisconsin is one of the “hinge” statesthat is, those who do not have a defined political color and change their vote in each election leaning towards Republicans or Democrats.
The President’s campaign team promotes Harris as the visible face of reproductive rightswith the message that if Trump returns to the White House will try to restrict them even more.
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On the contrary, from the side of former president assure and celebrate that the revocation of the right to abortion at the federal level was possible, largely, thanks to him.
However, the current vice president attacked that speech and questioned: “Proud? Proud that women across the country are suffering?” Proud that women have been robbed of a fundamental freedom?” Harris asked. “How do you dare?”.
Women at the event said Harris and Biden’s messages were “important.” “I don’t know if there are laws regulating what a man can do with his body, sowhy a man tries to tell a woman what she should be able to do with her body“,” Corinda Rainey-Moore, community leader, said in dialogue with the AFP agency.
Source: Ambito
