BOSTON – Vice President Kamala Harris is in Massachusetts for 2 occasions Thursday.
Harris will meet with Governor Charlie Baker, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, state legislators and native leaders in a roundtable dialogue on abortion rights at IBEW Native 103 in Dorchester round 12:50 p.m.
After the assembly, she’ll head to Martha’s Winery for a Democratic Nationwide Committee finance occasion.
That is Harris’s first go to to Massachusetts as vp.
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President Joe Biden got here to Somerset final month. He held an occasion on the Brayton Level Energy Station on July 20 to announce new local weather change actions after which examined optimistic for COVID the following day.
Harris’s go to comes because the Biden Administration takes extra steps to guard entry to abortions.
The vp has mentioned she has a “deep sense of shock” over the Supreme Courtroom’s repeal of Roe v. Wade. Her go to is a part of a nationwide tour on the difficulty of reproductive rights.
After the choice, protests erupted in Boston. In July, Gov. Charlie Baker signed a invoice defending abortion and reproductive rights.
