Kamala Harris will become the first president or vice president to visit a reproductive health clinic that provides abortions during a trip to Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday, USA Today reports. The messaging from the visit will be clear: Republicans want to take away women’s reproductive freedom and endanger their lives.
The messaging is so focused, the stop is actually the sixth on Harris’s “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, where the VP is discussing the availability of care in Minnesota, where liberal abortion laws have brought in patients from more conservative states where access is either limited or denied. Harris has also brought attention to the lack of reproductive care providers in some states because practitioners fear for their safety.