Vice President Kamala Harris slammed “extremist” Republican leaders during an address to the 113th NAACP national convention and seemed to compare abortion restrictions to slavery.
“We must recognize there are those who are fighting to drag us backward,” she said Monday in New Jersey. “Extremist so-called leaders who are attempting to undermine our democracy and assault our most fundamental freedoms: the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to make decisions about our own bodies, and the freedom to vote.”
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Alluding to November’s midterm election cycle, Harris implored the NAACP to “continue to build coalitions of Americans of all ages and races and backgrounds.”
“No matter how many times they push us back, we will continue to march forward,” she said. “Freedom, liberty, and democracy are on the ballot this fall. And we need to make sure that our voices are heard.”
Harris also contended that “our freedoms are all connected,” asserting the states restricting abortion were more likely to prioritize what they describe as election integrity.
“To support a woman’s ability, not her government but her, to make that decision does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs,” she said. “It just requires us to agree the government shouldn’t be making that decision for her.”
Harris added, “You know, NAACP, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies.”
Mass shootings have transformed the country into “a nation in mourning,” Harris said, too. Citing an increase in gun manufacturing over the past three decades, the vice president repeated her endorsement of an assault weapons ban and repeal of the legal liability shield.
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Harris’s remarks at the Atlantic City Convention Center preceded a roundtable with New Jersey state lawmakers, including Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver and Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz, to discuss abortion.
