On January 22, 1973 — 51 years ago today — the Supreme Court found a “right to an abortion” in the United States Constitution. That was the beginning of nearly 50 years of legal abortion in all 50 states. And now it’s over, thanks to a more memorable date, June 24, 2022 — the day Roe was overruled.

Nevertheless, Vice President Kamala Harris has begun a national tour for “reproductive rights,” accusing “the previous president” of “being proud of what he did.”

By inference, he is proud that women have been deprived of fundamental freedoms to make decisions about their own body; by inference, proud that doctors are being penalized and criminalized for providing health care, proud that women are silently suffering because they don’t have access to the health care they need.

We can expect much more of these kinds of attacks as the 2024 race continues. We can also expect Trump to continue to style himself as a pragmatist, rather than a dogmatist: defending his record from Biden’s attacks with the framing that we let the states decide and now that’s what they’re doing! while attacking the Democrats for supporting even third-trimester abortions.