In a speech clearly aimed at laying out what was at stake in the coming 2022 midterm elections, the vice president issues a call for action.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday sounded an alarm for a woman’s right to choose and the ability to vote and against gun violence, as she urged members of the NAACP’s national convention in Atlantic City to protect hard-fought constitutional guarantees she warned are now being eroded.
“Today, in America, Black women are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. Native American women are more than twice as likely to die,” she said. “Rural women are more than one and a half times more likely to die. So we have elevated, for an obvious reason, the issue of maternal health so it will be a national priority.”
Our fight for reproductive rights is not only on the national level, but on the state and local. I’m in New Jersey to meet with state legislators who have passed laws to protect the right to reproductive health care and the right of health care providers to provide services.
At the same time, she said those same people are passing laws to restrict the ability of people to vote. Inside the city’s main convention hall, hundreds of people gathered before a stage lit up in electric blue, many of them holding up “This is Power” signs — this year’s theme. Others wore bright yellow shirts emblazoned with the same message. Some wore masks with messages on them, including “I will vote.”Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
“t was something that needed to be said and what we needed to hear as delegates, so we can take it back to our units throughout the country,” she said. “The biggest thing is to get people out to vote, that it our goal and mission so we can change the landscape of what’s going on in this country.” Every presidential election, the NAACP said it extends invitations to both the Republican and Democratic nominees for president to address its membership during those gatherings. Past speakers have included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, President George W. Bush, Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton.
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