Vice President Harris’s fight for reproductive freedom

(Sierra Club) – It matters deeply that America has a woman as our vice president. That has never been truer than at this moment. Nothing makes this clearer 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, 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. Related Stories 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: reproductive health and freedom. And while the work mainly focused on birth control, education, and some routine health care, it was not without its challenges – especially...