Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic, reportedly the first time a president or vice president has visited an abortion facility.
As part of her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, which started in January to promote abortion, Harris will speak to staff at the clinic and may interact with patients, NBC News reported. Harris’ tour began with an event in Wisconsin on January 22, the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
“Extremists across our country continue to wage a full-on attack against hard-won, hard-fought freedoms as they push their radical policies – from banning abortion in all 50 states and criminalizing doctors, to forcing women to travel out of state in order to get the care they need,” Harris said in a statement before the tour launched. “I will continue to fight for our fundamental freedoms while bringing together those throughout America who agree that every woman should have the right to make decisions about her own body – not the government.”
SCOOP: Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a clinic that provides abortion services in Minnesota tomorrow.
Sources tell me, @JulieNBCNews, and @albamonica that they believe this will be the first time a president or vice president has ever visited a clinic that provides…
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 14, 2024
“Vice President Harris will also hold extremists accountable for proposing a national abortion ban,” a December 19 statement from the White House declared.
The Biden administration has been using the issue of abortion to appeal to voters for the 2024 election. In his State of the Union address, President Biden accused, “Many of you in this Chamber and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom. My God, what freedoms will you take away next?”
“Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women in America,” Biden continued, bragging, “They found out though when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again, in 2024. If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again! “
Biden implied restoring Roe was a step in the right direction, saying, “America cannot go back. I am here tonight to show the way forward.”
After Roe was overturned, many state laws protecting unborn life went into effect in Republican-led states however leftist activists have pushed mail-order abortion pills and many corporations have decided to fund travel for their employees to go out of state for abortions.
“In the first 10 months of 2023, there were an estimated 878,000 abortions in the formal US health care system, 94% as many abortions as were provided in 2020 (930,000),” the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute wrote in January. “Approximately 88,000 abortions have been provided in the formal health care system per month so far in 2023, so with two months of data yet to be published, it is very likely that the total number of abortions provided in 2023 will substantially exceed 2020 numbers.”