“This morning, over 1.5 million Iowa women woke up with fewer rights than they had last night. It's all because of Trump's abortion ban. We will stop Trump's extreme abortion bans at the ballot box this November,” she wrote. Kamala Harris on social media.
Democratic Party candidate for US President she added a short video to the post showing a map of the US with the states where the ban is in effect marked. In the background, you can hear the words Donald Trumpthat he is a “proud person who brought about an end” to Roe v. Wade.
At the end of the recording, a message appears saying: the ban is already in effect in 22 states.
Kamala Harris Promises to Lift Abortion Ban
Kamala Harris not for the first time in her campaign talking about abortion. The ad announcing her candidacy already mentioned the fight against abortion bans, which have been introduced in more than a dozen states in recent years.
Next to the fight for free health care and equal rights for women, Lifting abortion bans is one of Harris' main campaign issues.
The latest poll by the American daily “The Wall Street Journal” shows that Harris' chances of winning against Trump are getting bigger. More than 100,000 people would vote for the former president. 49 percent of respondents. Kamala Harris would vote for 47 percent of survey participants.
Trump's advantage over the Democrat is much smaller than the one the Republican had over Joe Biden at the beginning of the month (he was ahead of the US president by 6 percentage points).
US Elections: Termination of Abortion Agreement
On Monday in the state of Iowa new regulations on abortion came into effect. From now on, it can only be performed up to the sixth week of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and serious abnormalities in the development of the fetus.
Previously, abortions were legal in Iowa up until the 22nd week of pregnancy.
Under Donald Trump, the US Supreme Court has been filled with conservative justices who led to the unraveling of Roe v. Wade. The agreement has been in place since the 1970s. regulated abortion law throughout United States and guaranteed American women access to legal abortion. Currently, it is the state authorities who decide on abortion.