MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President Kamala Harris touched down Saturday in the Twin Cities two weeks before the midterm election to issue a call to action on abortion, imploring an auditorium full of students and state leaders to "pick up the movement" for reproductive rights that started more than five decades ago.
Saturday's stop in Minnesota — her first since becoming vice president — was the latest in a series of moderated conversations held by Harris since a U.S. Supreme Court draft decision leaked in May signaling the court's plans to overturn Roe v. Wade. The ruling kicked the issue of abortion access back to individual states and thrust it into the middle of a contentious campaign.
"We are seeing an intentional restriction of rights. What is that saying about the trajectory and the direction of our country?" Harris said on the St. Paul campus of Metropolitan State University.
