Harris likens end of Roe to slavery

Harris made the comparison while speaking at the Essence Festival in New Orleans on Saturday.

‘We have to recognize we’re a nation that was founded on certain principles that are — that are grounded in the concept of freedom and liberty,’ she told the crowd.

‘We also know that we’ve had a history in this country of government trying to claim ownership over human bodies. And we had supposedly evolved from that time and that way of thinking. So this is very problematic on so many levels.’

Although she didn’t explicitly reference the horrors of slavery, Harris is widely-believed to have been referring to the United States’ grim past of buying and selling black people.