The appearance at a health center will be the latest leg in a nationwide tour by Ms. Harris, who has emerged as the most outspoken defender of abortion rights in the administration. While White House officials say they have largely reached the limits of their power to protect abortion rights, the issue has emerged as a linchpin of their re-election strategy.
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Ms. Harris plans on Thursday to tour the center with an abortion provider and highlight what the administration has done to try to preserve access to the procedure as conservative states enact growing restrictions.
The Society of Family Planning, a health research organization, found that the average number of abortions in the state increased by about 36 percent in the year after the Supreme Court decision.
Instead, a notable number focused on the complexities, embracing slogans like “safe, legal and rare” and joining Republicans to oppose taxpayer funding of the procedure through the Hyde Amendment.
But the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade scrambled those old politics, creating an energized coalition of voters who helped Democrats win a series of federal and state races thanks to their support of abortion rights.
Those assurances represent a notable escalation on the issue from Mr. Biden, an observant Catholic who spent decades caught between with his religious opposition to the procedure and the policy of his party.
Legislation codifying federal abortion rights would have little chance of passage, given the narrow Democratic majority in the Senate and disagreements within the president’s own party over the scope of such a bill.
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