Vice President Kamala Harris is pinning her hopes for the White House on her track record as an advocate for abortion access.
Just as former President Donald Trump rose to political prominence with a focus on immigration, so too Harris is building her campaign on restoring national abortion protections in the aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. It’s a change from her brief 2019 campaign for the White House, in which she attempted to court both the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party and failed to persuade either one.
As Harris seeks to benefit from the abortion debate, the Republican Party writ large is seemingly distancing itself from what Trump has classified as a losing issue. Social conservatives are growing increasingly discontented with the Republican Party’s changes to the platform, which include dropping any reference to national-level restrictions on the procedure and eliminating language about the sanctity of life.
The would-be first female president is promising voters that, if elected along with a Democrat majority in Congress, she will sign a national-level abortion rights bill that would go farther than Roe v. Wade, allowing abortion post-viability based upon a physician’s recommendation.
Although Harris’s position on abortion is far to the left of the pre-2008 Democratic policy of “safe, legal, and rare,” her current party base is supportive, with 82% of Democratic women saying they trust Harris to lead the helm on this issue, according to a recent poll by healthcare think tank KFF.
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