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DUMFRIES, Virginia — On a warm September Saturday, Kaitlyn Joshua stepped off the Fight for Reproductive Freedoms bus into the parking lot of an office park off a busy stretch of highway in Northern Virginia.
The assembled crowd there had come to hear her and Amanda Zurawski, two of the most visible surrogates for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, share their stories of losing wanted pregnancies in red states that have banned abortion. They’re traveling around the country to key election battlegrounds to talk about the impact of the end of federal abortion rights — and warn that former President Donald Trump’s election could threaten abortion access in states like Virginia where the procedure is still legal.
Since going public with her story of experiencing a miscarriage in post-Roe v. Wade Louisiana, Joshua has become one of the most outspoken and prominent Black women advocating for abortion rights — while drawing attention to disparate maternal health outcomes for Black patients. In a recent Harris campaign TikTok video that has been viewed nearly 10 million times, Joshua says, “I’m one of the women” whose stories Harris referred to in her debate against Trump.