Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks in Tucson on abortion

Fiery, succinct and on point. Here is your link.

Vice President Harris speaking in Tucson, Arizona

If you did not see or hear the Vice President when she spoke in Arizona, today, Friday April 12, here is your link to C-Span’s recording of her unedited remarks: https://www.c-span.org/video/?534902-1/vice-president-harris-remarks-arizona-abortion-rights

Here below are what I considered to be the salient points of Vice President Harris’ eloquent remarks, which I transcribed, because I believe they are powerful and compelling:

“Arizona, this fight is about freedom and the freedom that is fundamental to the promise of America. The promise of America is a promise of freedom.

In America freedom is not to be given.

It is not to be bestowed.

It is ours by right and that includes the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body and not have the government telling people what to do.

However, as we know, almost 2 years ago, the highest court in our land, the court of Thurgood and RBG, took a constitutional right that had been recognized by the people of America, from the women of America, and now in states across our country, extremists have proposed and passed laws that criminalized doctors and punished women, laws that threaten doctors and nurses with prison time, even for life, simply for providing reproductive care.

And then just this week here in Arizona they turned back the clock to the 1800s to take away a woman’s most fundamental right, the right to make decisions about her own body.

This decision by the Arizona State Supreme Court now means th women here live under one of the most extreme abortion bans in our nation, with no exception for rape or incest, prison time for doctors and nurses, and abortion made illegal before most women even know they’re pregnant.

The overturning of Roe was without any question a seismic event and this ban here in Arizona is one of the biggest aftershocks yet….

…And when Congress passes a law that restores the reproductive freedoms of Roe, Joe Biden will sign it into law.

So in conclusion, I say it is going to take all of us to get there. It’s gonna take every single one of us.

And momentum is on our side.

Think About it. Since Roe was overturned every time reproductive freedom has been on the ballot the people of America have voted for freedom. Think about it. From Kansas to California to Kentucky in Michigan, Montana, Vermont and Ohio, people of America have voted for freedom— and not just a little— but often by overwhelming margins, proving, also, this is not a partisan issue, proving that the voice of the people has been heard and will be heard.

Today I ask Arizona— are you ready to make your voices heard?

Do we trust women?

Do we believe in reproductive freedom?

Do we believe in the promise of America?

And are we ready to fight for it?

And when we fight— we win.

God bless America.”