The Vice President is returning to Northeast Florida yet again, in the Joe Biden administration's latest attempt to focus on the fight for reproductive rights in a state that restricts them.
Per an advisory from the White House, Kamala Harris will be in Jacksonville on May 1.
"The event will take place on the day the state is set to implement an abortion ban even more extreme than the one currently in effect. The Vice President will discuss the harms inflicted by state abortion bans and continue to make the case that 'Donald Trump did this.'"
The reference is to the state's Heartbeat Protection Act, which restricts termination of pregnancy after the sixth week except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother. That replaces the ban on the procedure after the 15th week of pregnancy.
Contrary to the White House claim, though, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature ratified those laws, albeit in the context of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and giving the states latitude to craft restrictions as they saw fit.
"This will also be the Vice President's 12th trip to Florida since taking office. She last visited the state in March, when she discussed gun violence prevention in Parkland. In January 2023, she visited Tallahassee to mark the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision and discuss reproductive freedom," the White House notes.
Harris is an increasingly familiar presence in Jacksonville as well.
In 2021, she visited the city to survey local COVID-19 response, accompanied by then-Mayor Lenny Curry, a former Chair of the Republican Party of Florida.
Last year, she came to the city to link the state's treatment of Black history to "powerful forces'" efforts to "distort history," including to "minimize or even deny the Holocaust" and obscure the history of Japanese internment camps or the treatment of native peoples.
"They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us and we will not have it," Harris said.
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