Kamala Harris Makes First of Its Kind Visit to an Abortion Clinic, Slams ‘Extremists’ Working to Roll Back Access

Vice President Kamala Harris became the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion provider on Thursday, where she called out lawmakers for seeking to roll back women’s healthcare access.

Harris toured Planned Parenthood’s St. Paul Health Center-Vandalia facility on Thursday as nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists protested the event outside, according to Reuters.

After the arriving to the facility, the vice president called out lawmakers for seeking to roll back access for women’s healthcare and claimed women in the U.S. are”silently suffering” following the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

The clinic Harris visited provides a variety of women’s health services, including birth control and preventive wellness. President Joe Biden has made abortion rights a center piece of his reelection campaign heading into the 2024 November race against former President Donald Trump.

I will tell you, it is because right now in our country, we are facing a very serious health crisis. And the crisis is affecting many, many people in our country, most of whom are, frankly, silently suffering after the United States Supreme Court took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America. In states around our country, extremists have proposed and passed laws that have denied women access to reproductive health care. And the stories abound. I have heard stories and have met with women who had miscarriages in toilets. Women who were being denied emergency care because the health care providers there at an emergency room were afraid that because of the laws in their state that they could be criminalized, sent to prison for providing health care.

So I’m here at this health care clinic to uplift the work that is happening in Minnesota as an example of what true leadership looks like, which is to understand it is only right and fair that people have access to the health care they need, and that they have access to health care in an environment where they are treated with dignity and respect.

Watch then clip above via CNN.