Vice President Kamala Harris was in Florida to press Donald Trump on a crucial topic for the 2024 election, as the state prepared for the implementation of one of the strongest abortion prohibitions in the country on Wednesday.
The Republican-led state of Florida has become a pivotal arena for a contentious issue that President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party intend to use in November due to the prohibition on abortions beyond six weeks of pregnancy.
Since the federal right to an abortion was removed in 2022 by a conservative US Supreme Court that included three judges Trump picked during his presidential campaign, Florida is among numerous states that have enacted bans.
As the ban comes into effect, Harris will travel to Jacksonville in Florida for a campaign event “focused on the stakes of the election for reproductive freedom across the country.”
She will “discuss the harms inflicted by state abortion bans and continue to make the case that ‘Donald Trump did this,'” Biden’s reelection campaign said.
Harris, the first female, black and South Asian vice president in US history, has become the campaign’s leading voice on abortion rights and led a nationwide tour on the issue.
Abortion has become one of the central issues of the election, with Democrats seeing it as a potential vote winner as they seek to prevent Republican Trump returning to the White House.
On April 23, Biden traveled to Florida and promised to personally hold his Republican opponent for president responsible for any restrictions on women’s access to abortion.
Women and clinics throughout the southern United States are in a panic before Florida’s abortion ban goes into force.
Many women traveled there to end their pregnancies because it was one of the only states in the area where the abortion time restriction was still very high.
