‘This fight is about freedom’


Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that banned abortions in almost all cases an “inflection point” in the fight over abortion rights and pointed the blame at Donald rump.


 Harris headed to Arizona to mobilize voters who see November’s election as a referendum on women’s rights, one of the Biden campaign’s key issues in the upcoming election. The vice president has become a go-to voice for the campaign on abortion rights and quickly announced a trip to Tucson after Tuesday’s ruling.


 The decision, which revived a 160-year-old law barring all abortions except in cases when “it is necessary to save” a pregnant woman’s life, “demonstrated once and for all that overturning Roe was just the opening act of a larger strategy” to restrict abortion access in the United States, Harris said in Tucson.


 “And we all must understand who all is to blame,” she added. “Former President Donald rump did this.”
 She laid out the stakes of the upcoming election in blunt terms: “This fight is about freedom.”


 Harris’ Friday's remarks came moments after Trump touted Roe’s overturning during an event at Mar-a-Lago he held with House Speaker Mike Johnson – during which the former president bragged, “We broke Roe v. Wade.”
 A second rump term, Harris said, would entail “more bans, more suffering and less freedom.”


 “Just like he did in Arizona, he basically wants to take America back to the 1800s,” Harris said. “But,” she added, “we are not going to let that happen.”“We are not going back,” she said. 

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