Vice President Kamala Harris lashed out at former President Donald Trump and pledged to restore Roe v. Wade during an abortion-focused speech in Arizona.
“This fight is about freedom,” Harris said. “And the freedom that is fundamental to the promise of America. … That includes the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body and not have the government telling people what to do.”
Harris has become the Biden administration‘s top spokesperson on the issue of abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe, the court’s five-decade-old decision that granted abortion rights.
Friday’s speech in Tucson was announced within hours of an Arizona Supreme Court decision that reinstated an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions.
“They have turned back the clock to the 1800s to take away a woman’s most fundamental right,” Harris said, “the right to make…
