As Dobbs turns two, “everything is at stake” for reproductive rights this November, says Vice President Kamala Harris.
On the eve of the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade, the Biden campaign is stepping up its messaging to voters about the stakes of the November election for reproductive rights.
Monday marks two years since the Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe. The Biden campaign will use the occasion to host 16 events in more than a dozen states, according to a campaign memo shared with Mother Jones. Those will include an event with Vice President Kamala Harris in Phoenix, and a rally in Wisconsin with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amanda Zurawski, one of the women who sued the state of Texas after being denied an abortion despite facing life-threatening pregnancy complications. (The Texas Supreme Court rejected the case and refused to clarify exceptions to the state’s abortion ban late last month).
“As we approach the two-year anniversary of the fall of Roe and the first presidential debate, the Biden-Harris campaign is going to make sure women and their loved ones across the country understand the dire threat of Donald Trump’s ongoing assault on American women’s fundamental freedoms,” the memo says. “Pro-choice voters delivered for President Biden in 2020 and for Democrats in 2022, and we’re going to make the stakes clear—Trump is a vote for a national abortion ban.”
Also on Monday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe will air an exclusive interview with Harris and Hadley Duvall—a reproductive rights advocate and rape survivor who shared her story in a viral ad supporting Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear—discussing the threats a second Trump term would pose to abortion rights and reproductive health more broadly.
