Cheney was speaking during three joint events with the vice-president in three swing states aimed at prising suburban Republican voters away from Donald Trump. She has become the Democrat's most prominent conservative surrogate and is rumoured to be in contention for a seat in a potential Harris cabinet.
At the final event in Waukesha, Wisconsin, against a blue backdrop displaying the words "country over party", Cheney, 58, suggested that Republican-led states have overreached in restricting abortion since the supreme court's 2022 Dobbs decision ended it as a constitutional right.
"I'm pro-life and I have been very troubled, deeply troubled by what I have watched happen in so many states since Dobbs," said the former Wyoming congresswoman and daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney. "I have been troubled by the extent to which you have women who - as the vice-president said, in some cases have died - who can't get medical treatment that they need because providers are worried about criminal liability."
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