The anniversary of the Supreme Court Roe versus Wade decision
has always been for it was for 50 years
a day of protest in Washington,
usually not very large protest,
but protest by the people who wanted to overturn Roe
versus Wade.
Apparently it's going to be something different this year.
You announced today that on January 22nd,
which is that anniversary, 51st anniversary of Roe versus Wade,
the vice President's reproductive freedom tour begins around going around
the country,
beginning in Wisconsin, which obviously everyone knows is a very
important electoral state.
This seems to be both
a hugely important issue, obviously,
to Democrats and to the Biden administration.
But it also seems to be
the beginning of a campaign in a presidential campaign in
which
reproductive rights could be the number one issue for your
campaign.
It is. But I'm going to add Lawrence to the
to who it is important to.
It's important to the American people.
The majority of Americans agree
that the freedom to make decisions about one's own body
should be with the individual and not their government telling
them what to do.
And we saw that in the midterms.
We saw that whenever reproductive freedom was on the ballot,
from Kansas to California and most recently from Ohio to
Virginia,
the voters voted in favor of freedom.
And so, yes, I'm, I'm starting in January,
getting back on the road as I did with the
college tour this fall.
And it is the fight for our reproductive freedoms.
And I'll be meeting with folks around the country of
all types of background by the way,
and political party affiliation to talk about the fact that
one,
most of us agree that
one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply
held beliefs
to believe that the government should not be telling her
what to do with her body.
And so we're going to be talking about that.
We're going to be talking about the reality of what
this means.
To your point Lawrence, many of us marched either for
making sure that Roe V Wade was strong and it's
protection of fundamental freedoms and and we did that for
years even when Roe V Wade was intact.
Now past Dobbs, we also know this is not just
the subject of a March and a protest.
This is about real people everyday suffering and many of
them suffering silently.
We just saw the the the young woman,
Kate Cox and what happened to her?
I I've, you know you're on at 10:00 at night.
So I'm going to assume that adults are watching Lawrence
and I'm just we have to be real on this.
In our country right now there are women having miscarriages
in toilets.
There are women who cannot afford to go to a
state that will allow them access to the healthcare they
need who are suffering.
There's only one state in the South,
and that's Virginia, that still has retained
a law that allows a woman to make decisions about
her own body.
And so this is an issue that yes,
I do believe will be resolved
in November of next year.
Because I do know that the American people fight for
freedom and believe
in the woman's right to make decisions about her own
body.
But understand, every day until then,
there are women suffering in our country in horrible ways.
And look, let me tell you,
there's going to be a split screen on this too,
in November of 24. To your point about the election,
there's really going to be.
Of all the issues we've discussed so far,
none of them are binary.
This one is November 24 binary.
On the one hand, you're going to have
the folks who are standing,
such as President Joe Biden and me,
saying we trust women to be able to make a
decision about what is in their best interest
and women can trust us
to protect their fundamental freedoms.
And on the other hand,
you're going to have folks who want a national band
and have the gall to tell women who are even
the survivors of rape or incest that they don't have
the right to make decisions about what happens to their
body next.
So I think there's going to be a clear
choice on this issue and so many others next year
in November.
Well, that that brings us to a challenge that you
have in this campaign,
because there seem to be a polling that shows a
single issue reaction
on the Democratic side of voters,
voters who support you've had,
they don't like your policy in Israel at the moment,
so they're not supporting the Biden Harris ticket.
But that same person might fully approve enthusiastically of what
you just
said. And and so the question becomes,
when you get to November,
how do you take all of the different single issue
of voters out there who are disappointed
for various reasons in the Biden administration and say to
them,
here is the single issue
that that you should concentrate it on Or here is
why you should vote for this ticket despite
what you don't like about
the issue that you disapprove of.
I do believe Lawrence and I'm and I'm familiar obviously
with the the term and the the
the philosophy about single issue voters.
But again back to the split screen.
I mean look at bans.
We want to ban assault weapons,
they want to ban books.
You look at it in terms of where we are
in the economy.
We are fighting for working people and increasing access to
capital for small businesses and they're cutting taxes on the
richest people in the country to the point that they
are contributing to a deficit.
Where we are on choice,
we just talked about where we are on climate,
Where the choice in its split screen is.
You got people who are denying or greenwashing and delaying
progress on one of the excess most in the highest
of existential crises we've ever faced.
We, on the other hand,
have invested historic amounts of dollars,
over a trillion dollars in the climate crisis and building
a clean energy economy.
I think all of these issues are important to voters
who are going to be
going to the polls in November and
and they will make their decisions,
obviously. But there are a lot of critical issues
at stake and you know,
every election cycle we talk about this is the most
election of our lifetime.
Lawrence, this one is. This one is.