Two years ago the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade made abortion

access a top political issue across America and now in the race for the White House.

Our Laura Baro Lopez has been covering both candidates

positions on reproductive rights. She joins me now. Good to see you Laura. Good to be

here. So start with the national landscape for us here. Where do the bans and

restrictions currently stand nationwide?

Right now across the country 13 states total, omna, have abortion bans with very few exceptions.

Now after that, four, there are four states that have bans at six

weeks and three other states ban abortions after 12 or 15 weeks and the majority

of those states are in the deep south including swing states like Georgia and North Carolina.

Okay, so that's where we are now. When it comes to the candidates walk us through it, where does Vice President Harris stand on this issue?

Harris became the face of abortion rights for the Biden administration and she was the first sitting

vice president believed to have visited an abortion clinic during this administration.

Now when it comes to her positions on abortion,

here's what she wants to do.

She wants to restore the federal right to an abortion

that was first established under Roe v. Wade.

She wants to protect abortion access

until fetal viability, which is generally

considered to be around 23 to 24 weeks, and she supports ending the

filibuster to pass federal protections for abortion. The reality, though,

Amna is that it's highly unlikely

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