In December, Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans for a nationwide abortion tour, part of the Biden-Harris campaign’s efforts to make abortion the top priority for the administration. Her tour kicked off in Wisconsin, which she referred to as “ground zero” for abortion.
Harris held a rally on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, during which she referred to abortion as freedom.
“In America, freedom is not to be given. It is not to be bestowed. It is ours by right,” she said. “And that includes the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body — not the government telling you what to do.” Of course, abortion does not make decisions about just one person’s body; a preborn child is a separate, individual human being, and one person cannot exercise their own freedom by depriving that of another individual.
Additionally, she spoke to Wisconsin Public Radio about her decision to kick off her abortion tour there.
“Wisconsin in many ways is ground zero for this issue. I’m coming to speak with the good people there about the fact that we stand with the women of America, with the people of America, and fighting for fundamental freedoms, including the freedom to make decisions about your own body,” she said. “The tour in general is to send a clear message that President Biden and I, we trust women to know what’s in their best interest and that the government shouldn’t be telling them what to do when they have the ability and facility to know what they need to do and what’s right for them.”
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The status of abortion in Wisconsin has frequently been uncertain; after Roe fell in 2022, preborn children were protected from abortion there under an 1849 law which stated: Any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony. Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper ruled in December that the statute refers to feticide — an act of homicide against a fetus committed by someone other than the child’s mother — but not abortion.
Wisconsin’s three Planned Parenthood facilities rapidly resumed committing abortions in response. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski has filed an appeal on the case.
