Where Trump and Harris Stand on the Issues, From Abortion to Immigration

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Where Trump and Harris Stand on the Issues, From ********* to Immigration

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== Ms. Harris wants to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law now that the Supreme Court has overturned it.

“When I am president of the ******* States, I will sign a law restoring and protecting reproductive freedom in every state,” she

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. To do that, she would need not just Democratic majorities in Congress but also 50 senators willing to get rid of the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass most legislation.

Ms. Harris said last year that she and President Biden envisioned a law mirroring Roe. As modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Roe broadly protected the right to ********* until a fetus could survive outside the womb but allowed bans after that point so long as they had exceptions for medical emergencies. “We’re not trying to do anything that did not exist before June of last year,” she

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As a senator, she

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of a bill called the Women’s Health Protection Act that would have gone somewhat further than Roe by prohibiting some state-level restrictions, such as requiring doctors to perform specific tests or to have hospital admitting privileges in order to provide abortions. She reiterated her support for it

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She also argued, while running for president in 2019, that states with a history of restricting ********* rights in violation of Roe should be subject to “pre-clearance” for new ********* laws, meaning those laws would have to be federally approved before they could take effect. Her campaign did not respond to a request to confirm whether she would still support this if Congress codified Roe. (Without such codification, the proposal is moot.)

In the absence of congressional majorities capable of codifying Roe, Mr. Biden’s cabinet took administrative actions to try to limit the effects of state ********* bans, and Ms. Harris has

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for those actions.

The Department of Health and Human Services

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in 2022 that a law pertaining to emergency rooms, the

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, obligates doctors to perform an ********* if they believe it is needed to stabilize a patient. (That guidance is subject to legal challenges on which the Supreme Court has so far declined to rule.) In April, the same department announced

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to shield many ********* patients’ medical records from investigators and prosecutors.

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