Abortion rights activists want a national leader. Is Kamala Harris up to the job?

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Harris’ opportunity in the spotlight — albeit on a sleepy summer afternoon — came courtesy of voters in reliably conservative Kansas, who voted overwhelmingly in a statewide referendum hours earlier to protect the state’s constitutional right to an abortion.

“The people of Kansas spoke and said this is a matter of defense of basic principles of liberty and freedom in America,” Harris said of the surprise victory.

The moment offered a glimpse of potential for Harris, who has tried to turn a crisis for Democrats — the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, ending the constitutional right to abortion — into a political opportunity.

Taking command in the battle over abortion’s future, now largely being fought in the states and as an issue in the November election, comports neatly with Harris’ political résumé, touching on her experience as the first woman elected to the second-highest post in the nation
and as a former California attorney general and U.S. senator with a longstanding interest in maternal health.

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“We need a leader on this. No one knows who’s the head of Planned Parenthood,” said Montana state Sen. Diane Sands, an abortion rights activist since the 1960s and one of many Democratic lawmakers and advocates who have met with Harris in recent weeks. “In her body, as a woman and a woman of color, she knows these issues in an intimate way.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-08-08/abortion-rights-activists-want-a-national-leader-is-vp-harris-up-to-the-job

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1. Really?!

Okay Ms. Sands.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. She'd get MY vote!

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3. YES

That is all

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4. "Is Kamala Harris Up to the Job?". The staff writer sounds concerned about the Vice President's

abilities to be a national leader on reproductive rights.

By Noah Bierman - Staff Writer