Talk about going into the Lion’s Den?
At a rally in Houston, Harris will be joined by women who have been affected by Texas’s new law, which was adopted in 2021 and bans abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Texas became the first state to adopt such a policy — known as a “heartbeat bill” because abortions are banned as soon as a doctor can detect a heartbeat — and other states have since followed suit….
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“We really wanted to go to a place that would properly capture the damage that’s been done to date and how it’s affecting people throughout the state, and to use that as an important tool to tell the story about what’s at stake as it relates to this election with abortion and women’s health care,” said David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Harris.
He said the campaign hopes the speech will reach voters in battleground states, including those that do not have abortion bans, to “talk very directly to them about what life would be like in their states if Donald Trump were to win another term.”….
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