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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

In Illinois, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks of ‘past tense’ era of abortion rights

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield on Friday. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Vice President Kamala Harris was on Air Force Two en route to Illinois on Friday when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending federal protections for abortion rights. Harris started reading the decision as the plane headed toward the Aurora Municipal Airport.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate Judiciary Committee chair, was on the flight, and the two discussed the ruling ending 50 years of reproductive freedoms women in the United States had enjoyed.

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