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Pence has stated that he is an opponent of Planned Parenthood, where, according to its latest data, abortion makes up 4% of affiliates' medical services.

In 2011 as a congressional representative, Pence helped push through a bill to decrease Planned Parenthood funding. That depressed funding left Pence facing the biggest HIV outbreak in Indiana as governor in 2015 after a Planned Parenthood clinic that served as a county's only HIV-testing center was forced to close.

Kamala Harris

Harris, meanwhile, has been a supporter of Planned Parenthood, which called her \"a defender of reproductive rights and health care.\"

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As senator, Harris has co-sponsored the Women's Health Protection Act, which would prevent states from enacting certain restrictions on abortion access, and the EACH Woman Act, which would effectively undo the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funds to go towards abortion, such as through Medicaid, by ensuring coverage for abortion under public insurance plans.

As President, I will stop dangerous state laws restricting reproductive rights before they go into effect. pic.twitter.com/w0cDxdH51T

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) May 29, 2019

As a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Harris proposed a unique plan to protect abortion rights and access. Modeling it on the Voting Rights Act, her proposed plan would require states get federal approval to enact restrictive laws, in what's known as a pre-clearance requirement.

\"When elected, I'm going to put in place and require that states that have a history of passing legislation that is designed to prevent or limit a woman's access to reproductive health care, that those laws have to come before my Department of Justice for a review and approval,\" she explained in May 2019 in an MSNBC town hall, \"and until we determine that they are constitutional, they will not take effect.\"

After citing women dying in back-alley abortions in the days before Roe, Harris said, \"On this issue, I'm kinda done.\"

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