“Today in America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban.”
Kamala Harris
Vice President of the United States. Claim dated 22 Jan 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue
What PolitiFact found
About 21.5 million women and girls of reproductive age live in states that ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Census data shows. That’s about 29% of women ages 15 to 49.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States) made this claim around 22 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 January 2024, 8 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
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