TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Florida on Wednesday, the day the state’s 6-week abortion ban goes into effect.
Harris stopped Jacksonville to deliver a speech about the “fight for reproductive freedom.”
This comes after President Joe Biden spoke about the issue in Tampa on April 23. Biden vowed to “hold Trump accountable” if reelected in November.
Harris shared stories of pregnant women denied reproductive care and miscarrying women turned away from emergency rooms, eventually developing life-threatening sepsis.
“We trust women,” Harris said on Wednesday. “We trust women to know what’s in their best interest.”
While speaking in Tampa last week, President Joe Biden called Florida’s six-week abortion ban “one of the nation’s most extreme anti-abortion laws.” Abortion rights advocates say it is effectively a total ban: six weeks gestation is before many women know they are pregnant, and the state will still require two in-person visits with the abortion provider, occurring 24 hours apart.
Advocates have scrambled to prepare for the shockwaves Florida’s new law will
