Kamala Harris blames Trump for Arizona abortion law
By Holly Honderich
Vice-President Kamala Harris lambasted Donald Trump over abortion restrictions as she held a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona on Friday.
The state was pushed to the front of the US abortion battle this week after the state’s Supreme Court upheld a 1864 law banning almost all abortions.
“Donald Trump did this,” Ms Harris said.
Her remarks added to recent attacks from the Biden campaign tying Mr Trump to abortion bans nationwide.
Mr Trump campaigned in 2016 on appointing justices who would overturn Roe v Wade. He put three conservatives on the court, all of whom voted to overturn Roe in June 2022 and rescinded the nationwide right to abortion.
An estimated 18 million women of reproductive age now do not have access to the procedure in their state of residence, according to the pro-choice research group the Guttmacher Institute.
“We all must understand who is to blame,” Ms Harris said on Friday. “Donald Trump is the architect of this healthcare crisis.”
She claimed that “a second Trump term would be even worse… he will sign a national abortion ban.”
