Vice President Harris compares abortion fight to Bloody Sunday: 'You can't take freedom'

Vice President Harris connected the events of Bloody Sunday to the abortion fight during an interview with Drew Barrymore on Monday, saying it wasn't only about women, but rather, "about everyone."

Barrymore talked to Harris about the importance of voting and warned, "we as women, cannot let this happen," the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Barrymore said she became an avid voter after walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of Bloody Sunday, in Selma, Alabama.

Harris spoke about commemorating Bloody Sunday and said, "all of these young people, young leaders decided to march through Selma and across that Edmund Pettus Bridge in fighting for voting rights," she said.

She explained that they were met with violence from law enforcement but weren't deterred.

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"And when the world saw the images of what happened that day, hundreds and hundreds of people went back, hand in hand, arm in arm of every race, every generation to fight for freedom. And that is what is at stake," she said, before turning back to abortion. "This is not only about the women of America, it's about everyone."

"It's about everyone," she repeated. "It's about the promise of America, it's about — you can't take freedoms."

Harris said America was certainly imperfect, but that equality should be guaranteed for all.

"If we don't fight for it, we'll never get there," she said.

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Barrymore praised Harris as the first female vice president during the interview.

"I believe in your protection of women, I believe in the fact that you are putting yourself out there front and center to care about them