Vice President Kamala Harris visited San Jose today, marking the second stop on her nationwide “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, where she contended with protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
During a talk at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose, Harris called for continued action to ensure reproductive freedoms are upheld in California and to help bring such protections nationwide, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
“We need this November to elect a majority of people in the United States Congress who simply agree it’s not the government’s right to tell a woman what is in her open best interest, when she knows what’s in her own best interest,” Harris said to a crowd of hundreds in a theater at the plaza.
The rollback of Roe has caused “extreme harm” nationwide, Harris said, with some states proposing and passing laws that “criminalize doctors and punish women,” as well as threaten health care workers for providing reproductive care to their patients.