Kamala Harris warns women may lose right to 'make decisions about their own bodies' in commencement speech
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Harris also warned Tennessee State graduates about Russian aggression.
Vice President Kamala Harris gave a sobering look at the "unsettled" world students are heading into as she delivered the commencement speech at Tennessee State University on Saturday.
The vice president discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the looming possibility Roe v. Wade will be overturned by the Supreme Court after a draft opinion leaked earlier this week.
"The world that you graduate into is unsettled," Harris said. "It is a world where long-established principles now rest on shaky ground. We see this in Ukraine, where Russia's invasion threatens international rules and norms that have provided unprecedented peace and security in Europe since World War II."
"We believed that the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity had for the most part prevailed, that democracy had prevailed," she continued. "But now the certainty of fundamental principles is being called into question, including the principles of equality and fairness."