最高法院判决一年后，副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯抨击了全国各州限制堕胎的大量法律推翻罗伊诉韦德案她的前任公开支持联邦禁令。
“在过去的365天里，我们国家的妇女承受了这些法律的后果，”哈里斯周六在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市中心对人群发表讲话时说。“法律在设计和效果上制造了混乱、困惑和恐惧。法律剥夺了我国妇女的保健权利，即使她们的生命和健康处于危险之中。”
其中一项法律将于7月1日在该州生效，将禁止怀孕12周后的大多数堕胎。该法律于上月在立法院通过否决民主党州长在州众议员Tricia Cotham之后的否决改变了她的党派归属给了共和党绝对优势。在哈里斯上台之前，两个演讲者提到了科瑟姆，每次都引来观众的嘘声。
“我觉得12周的禁令非常不幸，”南卡罗来纳州居民兼保险公司经理凯蒂·莫戴尔告诉美国广播公司新闻。“在很多情况下，女性要么最近发现自己怀孕了，要么甚至发现怀孕有异常，我觉得作为女性，我们有权利和大脑为自己的身体做出决定。我们应该被信任与我们的医疗保健提供者一起做出这些决定。”
Kelle Pressley，一个来自夏洛特的导乐和九个孩子的母亲，批评12周的禁令是“荒谬的”。
“不让他们控制自己的身体就是剥夺了他们作为一个人的权利，作为一个美国人的权利，作为一个母亲的权利或者选择不做母亲的权利，”普莱斯利说。
哈里斯的讲话为拜登竞选团队为期一周的将堕胎置于选举中心的努力画上了句号。周五，乔·拜登总统和哈里斯，以及第一夫人和第二先生，参加了华盛顿特区的一次集会，在那里他们接受了支持堕胎团体EMILYs List，NARAL Pro-Choice America和计划生育行动基金的支持。拜登还签署了一项基本上是象征性的行政命令，旨在促进避孕手段的普及。第一夫人吉尔·拜登周二也在白宫举行了一场关于堕胎的圆桌会议。
“生殖自由是我们所有人的问题。男人，女人，所有人。女人不能小于，”第二位绅士道格·艾姆霍夫说.
竞选团队认为堕胎是竞选获胜的关键。
吉尔·拜登周五表示:“是女性让乔和卡玛拉入主白宫的。”。“我们会再做一次。”
这是哈里斯周六重申的战斗口号。
“当我们战斗时，我们赢了，”哈里斯说。
但是，许多与拜登竞争的共和党人都倾向于他们在堕胎问题上的立场，哈里斯的前任主张在全国范围内限制堕胎。
前副总统迈克·彭斯说:“我想发自内心地说，每一位共和党总统候选人都应该支持禁止15周前堕胎，这是全国的最低标准。”告诉观众周五在国家首都举行的信仰和自由联盟会议上。
此前，彭斯曾暗示他愿意更进一步谚语他支持在全国范围内禁止怀孕仅六周的堕胎，这将是任何候选人提出的最具限制性的一个窗口。
“国会中的极端共和党人提议在全国范围内禁止堕胎。全国范围内，”哈里斯说。“但是，我有消息告诉他们:我们不会那样做的。我们不会那样做的。”
根据最近的调查，自去年以来，支持堕胎合法的人数有所增加投票.
Harris, Pence continue to differ one year after Dobbs
Vice President Kamala Harris assailed a spate of laws restricting abortion in states across the country one year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as her predecessor openly embraces a federal ban.
"Over the past 365 days, the women of our nation have suffered under the consequences of these laws," Harris said, addressing a crowd in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday. "Laws that in design and effect have created chaos, confusion, and fear. Laws that have denied women of our country care even when their life and health were at risk."
One of those laws is set to take effect in the state on July 1 and will ban most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The law passed last month after the legislature overrode the Democratic governor’s veto after state Rep. Tricia Cotham switched her party affiliation and gave Republicans a supermajority. Cotham was referenced by two speakers before Harris took the stage, eliciting boos from the crowd each time.
"I feel like the 12-week ban is very unfortunate," Katie Moydell, a South Carolina resident and manager of an insurance company, told ABC News. "There are many situations when women have either found out recently that they were pregnant or even that there are anomalies with the pregnancy, and I feel like we as women have the rights and the brains to make decisions for our bodies. We should be trusted to make those decisions with our health care providers."
Kelle Pressley, a doula from Charlotte and a mother of nine, panned the 12-week ban as "ridiculous."
"Not giving them control of their bodies is taking away their rights to be a human, their right to be an American, the right to be a mother or chose not to be a mother,” Pressley said.
Harris’ speech serves as a bookend to the Biden campaign’s week-long push to center abortion in the election. On Friday, President Joe Biden and Harris, along with the first lady and the second gentleman, attended a rally in Washington, D.C., where they accepted endorsements from pro-abortion groups EMILYs List, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Biden also signed a largely symbolic executive order aiming to promote access to contraception. First lady Jill Biden also held a roundtable on abortion at the White House on Tuesday.
"Reproductive freedom is an issue for all of us. Men, women, everyone. Women cannot be less-than," second gentleman Doug Emhoff said.
The campaign sees abortion as a winning issue for the ticket.
"Women put Joe and Kamala in the White House,” Jill Biden said Friday. "And we will do it again."
It's a rallying cry Harris reiterated Saturday.
"When we fight, we win," Harris said.
But many of the Republicans competing to take on Biden are leaning into their stances on abortion, with Harris’ predecessor advocating for nationwide restrictions.
"I want to say from my heart, every Republican candidate for president should support a ban on abortion before 15 weeks as a minimum nationwide standard," former Vice President Mike Pence told an audience at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s conference Friday in the nation’s capital.
Pence has suggested he’s willing to go further, previously saying he'd support banning abortion nationally after just six weeks of pregnancy -- a window that would be among the most restrictive proposed by any candidate.
"Extremist Republicans in Congress have proposed to ban abortion nationwide. Nationwide," Harris said. "But, I have news for them: We’re not having that. We’re not having that."
Support for abortion being legal has increased since last year, according to recent polling.
