Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday arrived in San Jose to continue her nationwide Fight for Reproductive Freedoms tour.
It's the second stop on the tour, and Harris is expected to highlight how states like California have worked to protect reproductive rights since the overturning Roe v. Wade.
Harris arrived at San Jose Mineta International Airport from Los Angeles. Her discussion on reproductive rights took place at the Mexican Heritage Plaza.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other activist groups organized a protest outside the plaza urging the vice president and President Joe Biden to pressure Israel to call an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. At least four times protesters shouted Harris down, but the vice president stayed focus on talking about the importance of reproductive rights.
Harris also touted California as a model for protecting women's rights, but also focused on a handful of states that have now banned abortion, even in the case of rape.
"One does not have to abandon their faith to understand that government should not tell a woman what to do with her own body," Harris said.
Harris was also scheduled to speak in Los Gatos at a fundraiser for the president's re-election campaign before heading back to Washington, D.C., later Monday afternoon.
