Abortion is at the heart of the American presidential campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting Minnesota on Thursday, March 14, to a clinic that practices voluntary terminations of pregnancies. She is on the front line in this fight.
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To UNITED STATESthis is a first, reports our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin. Never has an American president or vice-president visited a clinic that practices abortion.
But since the Supreme Court removedalmost two years ago, the constitutional protection of right to abortion, Kamala Harris tries to show the concrete consequences. She became the spearhead of this fight.
Since the start of the year, this is his 6th trip on this theme of the fight for procreation freedom. The Democrats want to make it a major issue in the November election. And Kamala Harris fully assumes this electoral objective.
“ Elections are important »
“ One of the points that needs to be made on this issue, as we try to bring up the stories and the real-world consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision, is to remind people that elections matter. What happened here in Minnesota, with the re-election of the governor and the reversal of the majority in the state Congress, is what ensured that these fundamental rights are intact and protected. Elections are important “, she insists.
The facts prove him right. In midterm elections, in local referendums, every time the question was raised in the debate, even in supposedly conservative states, voters protected the right to abortion.
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