President Joe Biden's campaign used the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision overturning abortion rights on Monday to spotlight Donald Trump's role in the ruling, as Democrats zero in on the issue ahead of November's election.

Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, said Trump was "guilty" of taking away reproductive rights from women. First Lady Jill Biden and other Democrats also speaking on Monday hope to mobilize volunteers and voters around protecting the patchwork remains of abortion access in the country.

More than 14,000 Texas patients crossed the border into New Mexico for an abortion last year. An additional 16,000 left Southern states bound for Illinois. And nearly 12,000 more traveled north from South Carolina and Georgia to North Carolina.

It happened almost by accident, over cocktails. Exactly the kind of accident that Leonard Leo intended to happen at his Federalist Society’s annual conference — a three-day gathering of the conservative tribe and a strategy session for right-wing lawyers, officials and judges that drew both big names and those who had lower profiles but were no less ambitious.

The majority of Americans still support broad access to abortion, new research shows, despite aggressive efforts by the GOP to convince voters it’s dangerous and immoral.

The findings released by Pew Research on Monday show 63% of Americans say abortion should be legal “in all or most cases,” up four percentage points from that share in 2021. Even two-thirds of moderate and liberal Republicans share that view, the survey found.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in an interview published Friday that he does not anticipate passing any kind of nationwide abortion ban next year, even if Republicans were to control the White House and both chambers of Congress, citing former president Donald Trump’s recent comments that restrictions should be left to the states.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Politico he doesn’t expect a national abortion ban if former President Donald Trump is elected, despite co-sponsoring previous proposals—becoming the highest ranking Republican to reverse course on the issue and follow suit with Trump’s stance that abortion should be decided at the state level.

Johnson said, “no, I don’t,” when Politico asked if he anticipated a national abortion ban if Republicans take control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in November.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he won’t try to pass a federal ban on abortion either before or after the 2024 election, even if Republicans keep their majority in the latter case.

Johnson (R-La.) affirmed his stance as a “lifelong pro-lifer” in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published Friday, but added that he rejected federal efforts to outlaw abortion and other demands from his right flank that triggered a failed vote to oust him earlier this week.

Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect Wednesday, essentially shutting down the last abortion safe haven in the entire Southeast region of the country.

Abortion providers, clinic staff, pro-choice advocates and lawmakers along the East Coast have been preparing for this day since the Florida Supreme Court greenlighted the six-week ban in April. Despite months of preparation, physicians and staff at Planned Parenthood health centers throughout Florida were gutted.

Arizona Republicans voted to overturn the state’s 1864-era abortion ban Wednesday in a shocking about-face that could have ripple effects into November.

Two Republicans, Sens. Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, voted with Democrats in the Senate to repeal the ban, which bans all abortions except to save the woman’s life, in a contentious session in which one Republican called the state of his party “disgusting.”

The Arizona Senate on Wednesday repealed a near-total abortion ban after the state's Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the ban enacted in 1864 was still enforceable.

The state Senate passed the repeal in a 16-14 vote with two Republicans voting to repeal the near-total ban. The state House voted to repeal the ban last week, and Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs is expected to sign the repeal immediately.