During a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris will promote Nevada’s ballot measure to enshrine access to abortion in the state constitution.
The Biden-Harris campaign will help collect signatures for the ballot initiative, a Biden-Harris campaign official told CBS News. In Nevada, the initiative is led by the Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom political action committee. If enough signatures are obtained, Nevadans will be able to vote in the general election to enshrine 24-week abortion access in the state constitution.
According to the campaign official, Vice President Harris will encourage Nevada voters to support the effort because it is “an important step in protecting against extremist state legislators who may attempt to pass another one.”Trump’s ban on abortion‘ in the future.'”
In early April, Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom announced the collection of more than 110,000 signatures before the June 26 qualifying deadline. To appear on the 2024 ballot, 102,362 signatures must be submitted. Of those, 25,591 must come from each of Nevada’s four congressional districts.
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The political group said it was actively collecting signatures in all districts.
“With more than 110,000 signatures collected in less than six weeks, this is a true testament to the fact that Nevadans recognize the importance of codifying reproductive freedom in our state constitution,” said Speaker Lindsey Harmon.
Harris’ trip to Nevada marks her second campaign stop focused on abortion rights in 2024, as abortion continues to be a mobilizing issue for Democrats. It also comes on the heels of vice president’s trip to Arizona on Friday after the state Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law that severely restricted abortions.
“Former President Donald Trump did this,” Harris told his audience in Tucson. “Donald Trump is the architect of this health crisis.”
In Nevada, Harris is expected to once again blame the abortion ban on Trump and warn voters that a second Trump term would endanger women’s reproductive freedoms. According to Harris, Trump, if elected to a second term, would sign a national ban on abortion.
Harris will argue for re-election in Nevada alongside Arizona State Senator Eva Burch.
Also Monday, Amanda Zurawski of Texas and Kaitlyn Joshua of Louisiana will appear at an event in Wisconsin for the Biden-Harris campaign. Both women will share their personal stories of how their lives were affected by restrictive abortion laws in their state after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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