Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit Charlotte, North Carolina, next week to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a 1973 landmark case that federally protected abortion rights, White House officials told McClatchy on Thursday.
And they added that it’s not a coincidence that Harris chose to visit North Carolina just days before new abortion restrictions go into effect on July 1.
North Carolina Republican legislators overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of their 12-week abortion ban last month. The ban offers some exceptions for rape and incest and “life-limiting” fetal anomalies, The News & Observer previously reported. There are no restrictions if a mother’s life is in danger.
