Vice President Harris and media mogul Oprah Winfrey sat down for an event in Michigan to discuss issues ranging from immigration to the economy, reproductive rights and gun violence prevention.
The event, which took place on a set reminiscent of Winfrey’s former talk show, included 400 people in the audience and others who joined virtually, including celebrities Ben Stiller, Jennifer Lopez, Bryan Cranston, Chris Rock, Tracee Ellis Ross, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.
The vice president and Winfrey discussed reproductive rights issues. They included Hadley Duvall, the Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather and impregnated at 12 years old, and the family of Amber Thurman, the 28-year-old Georgia mother who died after not receiving care.
Duvall spoke at the Democratic National Convention and recently was featured in a Harris campaign ad, telling her story about having reproductive freedom before Roe v. Wade was overturned. Thurman’s death was reported earlier this week by ProPublica, which published that it was “preventable,” but she didn’t receive care because of the state’s restrictive abortion law.