On Tuesday, Biden and Harris will speak at a rally in Virginia on the stakes of the election for reproductive rights.
The full-court press is part of an effort to mobilize the Democratic base around abortion rights ahead of the 2024 election.
The effort began on Sunday, when the Biden campaign unveiled a new ad featuring emotional testimony from a woman who says she was forced to leave Texas to get an abortion after discovering her fetus had a fatal condition with no chance of survival. The narrator, Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN in Texas and mother of three, placed the blame squarely on former President Trump, the GOP front-runner.
On Monday, the White House announced new steps to ensure access to contraception, emergency abortions at hospitals and abortion medication.
Biden also convened a meeting of his reproductive rights task force, the fourth time the group of senior officials has met since its formation in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe.
In brief remarks at the start of the meeting, Biden talked about the “cruelty” of red state abortion bans in the post-Roe era and called for Congress to codify the protections of Roe into law.
But the strongest words came from Harris, who has become the administration’s foremost messenger on abortion rights.
She has met with dozens of activists, health care providers and individuals directly affected by abortion bans, and she has repeatedly connected the fight over abortion rights to the broader fight for personal freedoms.
Speaking in the battleground state of Wisconsin, Harris left little doubt that Trump was responsible for the end of Roe.
“As we face this crisis and as we are clear-eyed about the harm, let us also understand who is responsible, shall we?” she said. “The former president handpicked three Supreme Court justices because he intended for them to overturn Roe. He intended for them to take away your freedoms. And it is a decision he brags about.”
