副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯周一在拉斯维加斯的竞选活动中，支持将堕胎权纳入内华达州宪法的投票措施，同时乔·拜登总统的连任竞选活动仍在继续将她作为堕胎权利的主要代言人之一-他们认为这个问题在预计将是一场激烈的大选斗争之前刺激了全国各地的选民。
哈里斯在下午晚些时候的讲话中，再次批评前总统唐纳德·特朗普应该为美国各地的各种限制负责，她称之为“特朗普堕胎禁令”。
哈里斯对一群组织者和支持者说:“我们在亚利桑那州等州看到的，内华达州人民为之奋斗的，以及前任总统是谁之间有着直接的联系。”
“我们不要忘记，唐纳德·特朗普明确表示，他打算选择美国最高法院的三名成员，以便他们推翻对罗诉韦德案的保护，”她说。"这是他声明的意图，他们照他的意图做了。"
特朗普经常通过他的最高法院选人来庆祝他在结束Roe中的作用，但是坚持堕胎应该被决定每个州，而不是全国，应该包括强奸，乱伦和怀孕妇女的生命的例外。
他批评了一些更严格的禁令，包括亚利桑那州的禁令，他说这些禁令必须由当地立法者解决。
但内华达州的哈里斯说，特朗普现在试图淡化他过去对国家禁令的支持-这是他私下讨论的事情，美国广播公司新闻2月报道-哈里斯已经达到了煤气灯，认为他会签署一项堕胎禁令，如果国会的共和党人给他机会，他投票回到白宫。
她说:“我们在这里说，我们不会支持这种做法——这是不行的，我们准备组织起来，走上街头，挨家挨户敲门，给人们发短信，让每个人都知道他们在这个时刻保护我们国家人民权利的力量。”。
周一是副总统在四天内的第二次“生殖自由”活动，上周五他去了亚利桑那州的图森。那次旅行是在亚利桑那州最高法院上周的裁决支持1864年的一项法律，该法律禁止所有堕胎，除非是为了挽救母亲的生命，并对帮助堕胎护理的医生进行刑事处罚。(这项19世纪的禁令暂时搁置，但预计将在几周内生效。)
应哈里斯的邀请，亚利桑那州参议员伊娃·伯奇(Eva Burch)最近在州参议院分享了她在一次意外怀孕后的堕胎故事，并与副总统一起谈论了邻近的亚利桑那州的堕胎情况。
倡导者说，如果亚利桑那州成为所谓的堕胎沙漠，基本上禁止堕胎，内华达州(目前堕胎在24周内是合法的)可能会成为附近的替代选择。
拜登-哈里斯竞选团队的工作人员和志愿者周一在现场帮助收集内华达州投票措施的签名，该措施旨在保护和加强堕胎权。
其他州的类似举措也激励了选民，他们一致投票支持堕胎权，无论是在红州还是蓝州。
根据内华达州投票措施的拟议文本，堕胎权将被写入州宪法，直至胎儿存活，即怀孕24周左右。该州将被允许在胎儿存活后对堕胎进行立法，除非卫生保健提供者认为堕胎是必要的。
内华达州要求在6月26日之前获得超过102，000个有效签名，其中至少有25，000个必须来自内华达州的四个国会选区，才能在投票中取得成功。
收集签名的团体“Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom”尚未宣布他们是否在所有地区都达到了目标，但该团体表示，已经收集了超过15万个签名，预计周一哈里斯将推动这一努力。
一名竞选官员说，副总统周五在图森的演讲中，她17次提到特朗普的名字，并将其他20个州的堕胎禁令称为“特朗普堕胎禁令”，标志着一个“新阶段”。
特朗普自己在这个问题上的信息已经发生了变化，包括他上周的声明----他反复取笑----他说堕胎应该由各州决定。他吹捧说，这种观点也将抵消民主党对它的关注。
但在美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)的雷切尔·斯科特(Rachel Scott)周五的追问下，特朗普不愿进一步解释他的转变，此前他曾承诺作为总统签署全国堕胎禁令。
“我们打破了罗诉韦德案，我们做了一些没有人认为可能的事情。我们把它还给各州，各州工作得非常出色，在某些情况下是保守的，在某些情况下不是保守的，”特朗普说，并补充说，“它正在以它应该的方式工作。”
民主党人抓住了特朗普语气的变化，作为对堕胎的更广泛关注的一部分，特朗普经常在高通胀、移民等问题上抨击拜登。
据这位官员介绍，自美国最高法院2022年否决罗伊的决定以来，哈里斯已经举行了80多场以堕胎权利为重点的活动，但上周是第一场活动，由哈里斯在致力于堕胎权利的竞选活动中领导。
她在图森说，州法院支持19世纪禁令的裁决“一劳永逸地证明，推翻罗伊案只是一个开端。”
她说:“这只是一个更大战略的序幕，该战略旨在剥夺妇女的权利和自由——这是一个州接一个州对生殖自由进行全面攻击的一部分。”。“我们都必须明白谁是罪魁祸首。前总统唐纳德·特朗普就是这么做的。”
“也疯了”:数百人在附近的战场集会支持堕胎权
在邻近的亚利桑那州，堕胎继续扰乱该州的政治。
周日，在斯科茨代尔，至少500人在沙漠的阳光下跨越一个繁忙十字路口的四个角落达两个小时，以争取支持类似内华达州的投票倡议，将堕胎权纳入该州11月的宪法。
各代人的支持者在驼背和斯科茨代尔道路的人行道上排列着彩色的标志——让斯科茨代尔老城陷入了支持的喇叭声——伴随着欢呼和圣歌:“这就是民主的样子。”
35岁的Hannah Tighe站在商业区说:“P.F. Chang的店现在被愤怒的人们点燃了，他们应该这样。
“有家庭，有年长的妇女，有使用她们在过去其他抗议活动中使用的标志的妇女，”泰格说，形容这既是“可怕的”，也是“美丽的”
Tighe说，州最高法院上周决定维持亚利桑那州成立前制定的堕胎禁令，这让她感到“愤怒、震惊和尴尬”
“亚利桑那州真的是一个很酷、很特别的州，生活在这里(现在)很尴尬，经历了这一切。我所有来自其他州的朋友都很担心——他们想确保这里的妇女安全，”她补充道。
尽管堕胎反对者庆祝禁令的恢复——“反堕胎运动在法庭上赢得了同情，”一人说——但堕胎权的支持者的声音并没有减少，一些自称“100%反堕胎”的州共和党高层也效仿特朗普，推翻了这一裁决。
65岁的劳拉·莱文(Laura Levine)周日参加了斯科茨代尔的集会，并和其他人一样对该决定和州议会上周未能迅速采取行动感到“愤怒”，她说她带着她的两个成年女儿一起出现。
她说:“很久以前，我在圣诞节前后在停车场被强奸后堕胎了，我不想让我的女儿们经历那样的事情，这个国家如此落后让我震惊。”。
“你不能把它留给美国，”她补充道。“你看各州都在做什么。”
克里斯·洛夫是亚利桑那州堕胎权利组织的发言人，该组织正在为堕胎权利投票倡议收集签名，他说，这项努力在上周获得了更大的动力。
“很不幸，最高法院在2024年决定支持1864年的禁令，以激励人们——但他们疯了，”洛夫在集会上说，她的身后响起了喇叭声。"对于那些有点袖手旁观的人来说，他们现在来了."
虽然洛夫表示，组织者已经超过了该州要求的签名门槛，支持将这项措施加入投票，但联盟将继续收集所有可能的签名，直到7月3日的最后期限，“以便我们有绝佳的机会参加投票。”
“坦率地说，我们将继续收集签名，直到轮子掉下来，”洛夫说。
25岁的保拉·梅迪纳(Paula Medina)签署了投票倡议的请愿书，并计划在11月支持它，但她说，她不确定她会投票给乔·拜登总统，尽管投票在国会面临挑战，但拜登总统正在与哈里斯一起恢复对罗伊的保护。
“我仍在努力解决这个问题，”麦迪娜在谈到她的投票时说，她在2020年投票给拜登和哈里斯，但对以色列-哈马斯战争的处理方式感到不安。“我知道有一个第三方候选人正在崛起，但这太令人困惑了。除此之外，我对自己在今年11月选举中的投票没有信心。”
与此同时，议员们将于周三在亚利桑那州再次召开会议，不过尚不清楚共和党领导的立法机构是否已与民主党就如何解决19世纪的禁令达成共识。
亚利桑那州众议院议长·本·托马上周在给美国广播公司新闻的一份声明中说:“我们作为一个民选机构将花必要的时间听取我们的选民的意见，并仔细考虑适当的行动，而不是在没有更大规模讨论的情况下就这样一个重大问题匆忙立法。”
Harris slams 'Trump abortion bans' in Nevada, with issue front-and-center in neighboring Arizona
Vice President Kamala Harris, at a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Monday, rallied support for a ballot measure to enshrine abortion access in the Nevada Constitution as President Joe Biden's reelection campaign continues tospotlight her as one of their leading voices on abortion rights-- an issue they see as galvanizing to voters across the aisle and country ahead of what's expected to be a tight general election fight.
Harris, in late afternoon remarks, repeated her criticism that former President Donald Trump is to blame for the various restrictions around the U.S., which she labeled "Trump abortion bans."
"There is a direct track between what we've seen in states like Arizona, what the people of Nevada are fighting for, and who the previous president was," Harris told a group of organizers and supporters.
"Let's not forget, Donald Trump made clear his intention to select three members of the United States Supreme Court, so that they would overturn the protections of Roe v. Wade," she said. "It was his stated intention and they did as he intended."
Trump has often celebrated his role in ending Roe, through his Supreme Court picks,but maintains that abortion should be decidedby each state, not nationally, and should include exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the pregnant woman.
He has criticized some of the more strict bans, including in Arizona, which he said must be addressed by local lawmakers.
But Harris, in Nevada, said that Trump is now attempting to downplay his past support for a national ban -- something he has discussed in private, ABC Newsreported in February-- which Harris has amounted to gaslighting, arguing that he would sign an abortion ban if Republicans in Congress gave him the chance and he is voted back into the White House.
"We are here to say that we're not going to stand for this -- it is not OK, and we are prepared to organize and to take to the streets and to knock on doors and to text folks and to let everyone know their power at this moment to protect the rights of the people of our country," she said.
Monday marked the vice president's second "reproductive freedoms" campaign event in four days after a trip to Tucson, Arizona, on Friday. That trip was made in the wakeof the Arizona Supreme Court ruling last weekto uphold an 1864 law which bans all abortions unless to save the life of the mother and carries criminal penalties for doctors who help with abortion care. (The 19th-century ban is temporarily on hold but is expected to go into effect within weeks.)
At the invitation of Harris, Arizona State Sen. Eva Burch, who recently shared her abortion story on the state Senate floor after a wanted pregnancy, joined the vice president to speak about neighboring Arizona's abortion landscape.
If Arizona becomes a so-called abortion desert, in which access is essentially banned, Nevada, where abortion is currently legal up to 24 weeks, could end up being a nearby alternative, advocates say.
Biden-Harris campaign staffers and volunteers were on-site on Monday to help collect signatures for Nevada's ballot measure, which aims to protect and strengthen abortion access.
Similar initiatives in other states have galvanized voters, who have uniformly cast ballots in favor of abortion access, in red and blue states.
Under the proposed text of the Nevada ballot measure, abortion access would be enshrined in the state constitution up to fetal viability, which is around 24 weeks of pregnancy. The state would be allowed to legislate on abortion after fetal viability unless a health care provider says abortion is necessary.
Nevada requires more than 102,000 valid signatures by June 26 and of those, at least 25,000 must come from each of Nevada's four congressional districts, to get the effort on the ballot.
The group collecting signatures, Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, has not announced whether they've reached their goal in all districts, but the group said it has collected more than 150,000 signatures and expects to gain momentum with Harris promoting the effort on Monday.
The vice president's speech on Friday in Tucson, where she mentioned Trump's name 17 times and labeled abortion bans in 20 other states as "Trump abortion bans," marked a "new phase," a campaign official said.
Trump's own messaging on the issue has shifted, including with his announcement last week -- which he repeatedly teased -- in which he said abortion should be left to the states. He touted that that view would also neutralize Democrats' focus on it.
But pressed on Friday by ABC News' Rachel Scott, Trump would not further explain his reversal, having previously promised as president to sign a national abortion ban.
"We broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible. We gave it back to the states, and the states are working very brilliantly, in some cases conservative, in some case, not conservative," Trump said, adding, "It's working the way it's supposed to."
Democrats have seized on Trump's change in tone as part of a broader focus on abortion on the trail, where Trump often hammers Biden over high inflation, immigration and more.
Harris has held more than 80 abortion rights focused events since the U.S. Supreme Court decision overruling Roe in 2022, according to the official, but last week marked the first event, of more to come, led by Harris on the campaign side that was devoted to abortion rights.
She said in Tucson that the state court ruling upholding the 19th-century ban "demonstrated once and for all that overturning Roe was just the opening act."
"Just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women's rights and freedoms -- part of a full-on attack state by state on reproductive freedom," she said. "And we all must understand who is to blame. Former President Donald Trump did this."
'Mad as well': Hundreds rally for abortion access in nearby battleground
In neighboring Arizona, abortion continues to roil the state's politics.
On Sunday in Scottsdale, at least 500 people spanned four corners of a busy intersection for two hours under the desert sun to rally support for a similar ballot initiative as in Nevada enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution come November.
Supporters of all generations lined the sidewalks of Camelback and Scottsdale Roads with colorful signs -- sending Old Town Scottsdale into a horn-honking frenzy of support -- coupled with cheers and chants: "This is what democracy looks like."
"This P.F. Chang's is lit right now with people who are angry -- as they should be," said Hannah Tighe, 35, standing on the commercial strip.
"There's families, there's older women, there's women who have used signs that they've had at other protests past," Tighe said, describing that as both "awful" and "beautiful."
Tighe said the state Supreme Court's decision last week to uphold the abortion ban crafted before Arizona established statehood left her feeling "angry, shocked and embarrassed."
"Arizona is a really cool, special state, and to live here [now] is embarrassing, to have that come through. And all my friends from other states are concerned -- they want to make sure the women here are safe," she added.
And though abortion opponents celebrated the revived ban -- "the compassion of the pro-life movement won in court," one said -- supporters of abortion access were no less vocal, and some top state Republicans who had called themselves "100% pro-life" mirrored Trump in pushing back on the ruling.
Laura Levine, 65, was at the Scottsdale rally on Sunday and echoed others "angry" at both the decision and the state Legislature for failing to take quick action last week, saying she showed up with her with her two adult daughters in mind.
"I had an abortion a long time ago after being raped in the parking lot in the snow around Christmas, and I don't want my daughters to experience anything like that, and it just blows my mind that we're going so backward in this country," she said.
"You can't leave it up to the states," she added. "You see what the states are doing."
Chris Love, spokesperson at Arizona for Abortion Access, the group that is gathering signatures for the abortion access ballot initiative, said the effort has gained greater momentum in the last week.
"It's unfortunate that it took the Supreme Court in 2024 deciding to uphold a ban in 1864 to get folks motivated -- but they're mad as hell," Love said at the rally, as horns blared behind her. "For anybody who was kind of sitting on the sidelines, they're here now."
While Love said that organizers have already surpassed the state's required signature threshold in favor of adding the measure to the ballot, the coalition will continue collecting every signature possible until the July 3 deadline "so that we stand the perfect chance of getting on the ballot."
"We're gonna keep collecting signatures until the wheels fall off, quite frankly," Love said.
Paula Medina, 25, signed the petition for the ballot initiative and plans to support it in November but said she's not sure she'll vote for President Joe Biden, who is running with Harris on restoring the protections of Roe, despite the challenges that vote faces in Congress.
"I'm still working through it," Medina said of her vote, explaining she voted for Biden and Harris in 2020 but isn't comfortable with how the Israel-Hamas war is being handled. "I know there's a third-party candidate who is coming up hot, but it's so confusing. I don't feel confident in my vote come this November's election outside of this."
Meanwhile lawmakers are set to reconvene in Arizona on Wednesday, though it's unclear if the Republican-led Legislature has reached consensus with Democrats on how to address the 19th-century ban.
Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma said in a statement to ABC News last week, in part: "We as an elected body are going to take the time needed to listen to our constituents and carefully consider appropriate actions, rather than rush legislation on a topic of this magnitude without a larger discussion."
