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The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

Kamala Harris kicks off abortion rights tour on 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade

Woman wearing blue suit holds up a map of the United States with a US flag in the background and a microphone in front of her.
Kamala Harris at a virtual first meeting of the taskforce on reproductive healthcare access in Washington, on 3 August 2022. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Kamala Harris kicked off her much-vaunted abortion rights nationwide tour in Wisconsin on Monday as Joe Biden convened a meeting of his taskforce on reproductive healthcare access, in a tag-team effort to double down on what is likely to be a key campaign issue this year.

The vice-president chose the 51st anniversary of the Roe v Wade ruling to begin the Reproductive Freedoms Tour, announced in December, in the battleground state of Wisconsin, which the president won in the 2020 presidential election by just over 20,000 votes.

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