Vice President Kamala Harris contended that the Senate filibuster should be removed so that a simple Democratic majority in the upper chamber could enshrine Roe v. Wade into federal law.

The candidate asserted in an interview that voters should assist the Democrats with retaining and expanding their majority in the Senate, allowing them to end the filibuster, under which sixty votes are required for most legislation to advance in the upper chamber.

“I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris said. “To actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom, and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”

Members of the Supreme Court overturned the decision in Roe two years ago, after which several conservative states enacted new restrictions on abortion, even as none have entirely abolished the murder of preborn babies amid an increased reliance on abortion pills. Harris vows in her campaign platform to sign a “bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide.”

“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz trust women to make decisions about their own bodies, and not have the government tell them what to do,” the campaign platform reads.

Harris vowed to end the filibuster in order to codify the provisions in Roe as voters in nearly one dozen states prepare to cast ballots on the enshrinement of abortion into their state constitutions. Missouri voters will consider whether to codify a “right to reproductive freedom,” while Florida voters will decide whether to codify that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health.”