PHOENIX — Democrats are putting reproductive rights front and center as Vice President Kamala Harris visits Phoenix on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade.
Arizona has become a frequent site for the Biden-Harris campaign to make its case in a battleground state that could decide who wins the White House. Biden won Arizona from Donald Trump by just 11,000 votes in 2020.
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Harris aims to "highlight the threat a second Trump presidency would pose to reproductive freedom nationwide," according to a press release from the campaign.
The event starts Monday afternoon and is invitation only. Actress Francia Raisa will join the vice president to focus on reproductive freedom in Latino communities, according to the Biden-Harris campaign.
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Harris last visited after 1864 ban upheld
Last April, Harris made a spur-of-the-moment decision to fly to Tucson for a rally just days after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a 160-year-old, near-total ban on abortion as state law.
In the weeks that followed, the Republican-controlled Legislature repealed the law after intense debate.
Under a high court order, the 1864 law was still to have taken effect at the end of September.
With the end of this year’s legislative session Saturday night, the effective date for new laws will be Sept. 14 – rendering the ban dating from Arizona’s first year as a U.S. Territory a relic of that era.
Harris made another visit to Arizona in March as part of the "Fight for Reproductive Freedoms" tour.
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