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On December 19, 2023 the vice president’s office quietly launched a new policy initiative. “Kamala Harris will embark on a nationwide reproductive freedoms tour,” read the press release, “to continue fighting back against extremist attacks around the country.”

Harris supporters have worried throughout her time as second-in-command that the Biden administration has saddled her with unwinnable issues, like voting rights and immigration. These were problems with far-off solutions in our current political moment. Abortion, though, is different. Polls, while not always reliable, show that a whopping 89 percent of Democratic women support national laws that guarantee the right to abortion.

President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday, throwing his support behind Harris in the effort to beat Donald Trump in November. “I am honored to have the president’s endorsement and it is my intention to earn …