A national bus tour will be making pit stops in Virginia this week to highlight Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s commitment to reproductive rights policy. 

The tour will tout campaign promises to voters, such as Harris’ plan to sign into law a bill to restore federal abortion protections, should congress send one to her desk if she becomes president, while Walz will stand ready to cast a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate if need be. With stops planned in Richmond, Virginia Beach and Northern Virginia, the tour’s foray across the commonwealth comes as early voting begins in Virginia next week and less than two months until Election Day. 

Earlier this year while President Joe Biden was still seeking re-election, he and Harris had kicked off their campaign in Virginia on the platform to “restore Roe.” 

The new bus tour will stop in all 50 states, including its three Virginia pit stops. A spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign in Virginia said that more details on the time and exact locations will be announced soon. 

The stops in Virginia will feature rallies led by elected leaders to include Virginia congresswomen Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond and Abigail Spanberger, D-Henrico. House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark will join them. 

Featured speakers include Amanda Zurawski, who is part of a lawsuit against the state of Texas for being denied an abortion amid her pregnancy complications, and Louisiana resident Kaitlyn Joshua who  shared the story of being denied care for a miscarriage at the Democratic National Convention last month. 

The tour plans to highlight the differences between the Harris-Walz campaign and that of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio. The substantially-shifted national landscape surrounding abortion access has changed in recent years following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had protected abortion federally for decades. Trump’s appointees to the court had upheld Roe as federal law during their confirmation hearings before ultimately ruling to undo it. As states now set their own laws on access or restrictions — something Trump has touted and claimed credit for —  Democrats point to growing uncertainty around access to birth control or family planning measures like in vitro fertilization. 

Several states have since voted to enshrine abortion protections into their constitutions — a process Virginia Democrats hope to kickstart next year — or drafted laws to protect other reproductive rights. 

Congressional Democratic campaigns along with the Harris-Walz campaign also point to outlines in a Heritage Foundation guidebook called Project 2025 that entails employing a long-dormant federal law to further restrict abortion medication and mailing of abortifacients. Critics and reproductive rights advocates have said this could pave the way for a national ban.

“As we crisscross the country, we are driving that contrast home to red and blue voters and independents,” Harris-Walz campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “The [tour] will drive home for voters that this threat to our fundamental freedoms touches every American.”