The 2024 elections will be dominated by the presidential contest and the battle for control of Congress, but another series of races is shaping up to be just as consequential.
Vice President Kamala Harris will tour the country in early 2024 to condemn new abortion limits and push for the restoration of rights that existed before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the White House said Tuesday.
Women increasingly are asking judges not their doctors for abortions in red states that have largely banned the procedure, creating a phenomenon not seen even before Roe v. Wade established a national right to abortion in 1973.
A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced waits because they struggled to travel hundreds of miles for care.
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.