Grapevine

By Al Jazeera
Jul 30, 2024

Harris slams Trump on abortion issue as six-week ban takes effect in Iowa

Abortion access remains top US election issue as ban on procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy takes effect in Iowa.

United States Vice President and the Democratic Party’s likely 2024 nominee Kamala Harris has slammed former President Donald Trump on abortion rights as a stringent, six-week ban on the procedure entered into force in the US state of Iowa.

In a post on social media, Harris dubbed the Iowa law “another Trump Abortion Ban”.

“In November, we will stop Trump’s extreme abortion bans at the ballot box,” she wrote.

Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, has boasted that he “was able to kill Roe v Wade”, the legal precedent that had guaranteed abortion rights across the US for decades but was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.