{"id":2716,"date":"2024-04-13T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2024-04-13T00:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:56:12","slug":"harris-blames-trump-for-abortion-ban-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Harris blames Trump for abortion ban in Arizona\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"


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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday blamed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for the loss of abortion rights in Arizona, three days after a court there upheld a 160-year-old ban on the procedure. <\/p>\n

Arizona’s conservative Supreme Court sent a shock wave through one of 2024’s most competitive election states, which could swing the presidential race and determine control of the Senate. <\/p>\n

Strategists in both parties said the ruling, which outlaws nearly all abortions, would push even Republican-leaning moderates toward Democrats, while also animating young voters and voters of color. <\/p>\n

“We all must understand who is to blame: former President Donald Trump did this,” Harris said before an audience that included reproductive health patients and providers in Tucson. “A second Trump term would be even worse … . If Donald Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban.” <\/p>\n

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Trump, set to face President Joe Biden again in November’s election, has distanced himself from the Arizona ruling. On Wednesday, he said the court had gone too far in reviving a near-total abortion ban, even while defending the Supreme Court decision that permitted states to restrict abortion. <\/p>\n

“President Trump could not have been more clear. These are decisions for people of each state to make,” said Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson. <\/p>\n

Biden beat Trump in Arizona by fewer than 11,000 votes out of 3.3 million ballots cast in 2020, the Democrat’s narrowest margin of victory in any state. <\/p>\n

Democrats think their opposition to restrictions on reproductive rights can help them secure another victory in the border state, where voters had been more focused on cost-of-living issues and immigration. <\/p>\n

Biden has tasked Harris, a former prosecutor and senator, with leading the administration’s reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling overturning abortion rights and with reaching core liberal voters undecided on a second, four-year term for the president. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court’s decision overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was powered by a conservative majority that Trump installed. <\/p>\n

Harris visited Phoenix, Arizona’s capital, just last month to talk about abortion rights as part of a “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour that has taken her to 20 states and included a visit to a Minnesota health clinic that offers abortion services. <\/p>\n

U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat running for a U.S. Senate seat in the Western state, criticized his Republican opponent Kari Lake for previously backing the abortion ban even though Lake disavowed the court ruling to reinstate it. <\/p>\n

Gallego traveled with Harris from Washington to Tucson and was set to hold another event on the topic in Phoenix later on Friday. <\/p>\n

“We don’t want this to be our brand. Arizona’s a state that’s got a booming economy,” Gallego told reporters aboard Air Force Two. “Now we look like this state that is relegating our women back to the 1860 laws?” <\/p>\n

The Biden campaign has aired an advertisement in Arizona in which a Texas woman tearfully describes almost dying after she was denied an abortion following a miscarriage. Across a black screen, the words “Donald Trump did this” flash as her sobs continue in the background. <\/p>\n

Asked at the White House on Wednesday what he would say to the people of Arizona, Biden replied, “Elect me.” <\/p>\n

Biden ran on legalizing abortion, but Democrats did not deliver him such a bill when they controlled Congress by slim margins from 2021 to 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n