Vice President Kamala Harris spoke on abortion rights while campaigning for President Joe Biden at an event in Tuscon, Arizona, on April 12. Her comments came days after the state Supreme Court’s move to uphold the state’s restrictive abortion policy.
The Arizona Supreme Court’s April 8 decision on the 160-year-old law bans abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk.
Ms. Harris spoke at the “reproductive freedom” rally about the court ruling, calling it “one of the biggest aftershocks yet” since the 2022 overturning of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade.
“Here in Arizona, they have turned back the clock to the 1800s to take away a woman’s most fundamental right, the right to make decisions about her own body … What has happened here in Arizona is a new inflection point,” Ms. Harris said. “It has demonstrated, once and for all, that overturning Roe was just the opening act….
