Ben Jealous: Vice President Harris’ fight for reproductive freedom

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, IN AN EXCLUSIVE IN-PERSON INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER AT THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION, FEB. 20, 2024. (PHOTO BY ROB TAYLOR JR.) by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—It matters deeply that America has a woman as our vice president. That has never been truer than at this moment. Nothing makes this more clear than Vice President Kamala Harris’s courageous decision to champion reproductive freedom in the midst of a full-on assault on the right to choose. Right now, Vice President Harris is traveling the country on an extensive Reproductive Freedom Tour. As noted by the New York Times, “The vice president has been the administration’s most forceful voice for abortion rights in the year and a half since& Roe v. Wade& fell.” Even among those of us without a uterus, the impact of the vice president’s courage affects many of us personally in our lives. It affects me as a girl dad, as a member of this country, and because the person who shaped me most as an organizer is my grandmother, Mamie Todd, who started her career in social change at Planned Parenthood in Baltimore. Even though abortion was illegal then, the basic mission was the same:...