Vice President Kamala Harris will journey to Iowa this week to debate efforts to guard reproductive rights, a White Home official advised the Des Moines Register.
Harris shall be in Des Moines March 16 to fulfill with native leaders. It continues a collection of conferences she has been holding throughout the nation because the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s Dobbs determination in Could, which overturned Roe v. Wade and People’ constitutional proper to abortion.
Up to now, Harris has hosted 40 conferences throughout the nation targeted on reproductive rights, the official mentioned.
“This challenge is about girls’s autonomy, their freedom to resolve whether or not and when to have kids,” Harris mentioned throughout a name with reporters Monday, the place she highlighted “excessive” measures limiting abortion entry throughout the nation. “These legal guidelines additionally endanger girls’s well being, placing their lives in jeopardy.”
Harris’ journey comes as Republican presidential hopefuls have been visiting the state in anticipation of the 2024 Iowa caucuses.
Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina have all made latest journeys to Iowa, touting conservative insurance policies.
Abortion is authorized in Iowa within the first 20 weeks of being pregnant. However the state’s authorized panorama stays unsettled in the case of abortion restrictions.
Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds is asking the Iowa Supreme Courtroom to permit a legislation to take impact that might ban most abortions after about six weeks of being pregnant.
High Republicans within the Legislature wish to look ahead to the result of that case earlier than they cross any additional legal guidelines.
However some have angled for faster motion, submitting a invoice earlier this 12 months that acknowledged life begins at conception and would have banned all abortions in Iowa. That invoice didn’t survive a legislative deadline often known as the “funnel” as shouldn’t be anticipated to advance additional.
Extra particulars in regards to the vice chairman’s journey to the state weren’t instantly obtainable.
USA TODAY White Home correspondent Francesca Chambers contributed to this story.
Brianne Pfannenstiel is the chief politics reporter for the Register. Attain her at bpfann@dmreg.com or 515-284-8244. Comply with her on Twitter at @brianneDMR.
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