In remarks to a packed room of supporters, Vice President Kamala Harris thanked them for upholding what she called the nation’s highest and most important ideal: freedom.
“In America, freedom is not to be given, not to be bestowed, but it is ours by right,” Harris said. “And that includes the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body, and not have the government telling people what to do.”
In the third stop for her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, Harris came to Savannah with prepared remarks on abortion access. Georgia law, which went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, bans abortion after six weeks.
Joan Wade, a resident of Savannah has been going to marches, protests and speeches for women’s collective rights and health since 1970s.
“My No. 1 concern is that the government is taking control of a women’s body, and they’ve got no business doing that,” Wade said. “It seems to me that the Republicans are all against regulation, unless its of our bodies. The thing that upsets me the most is that they don’t have the medical knowledge to know what they’re talking about.”