This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout.

Next week in Chicago, Democrats will hold their first national convention since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abortion became a central issue in subsequent elections, including the upcoming presidential election. The convention could also be the first time Democrats wrestle with moving beyond a Roe framework on abortion access and adopting something broader and more progressive. If that happens, it will be because of abortion rights advocates’ tireless work to move a potential Kamala Harris administration to the left of her current boss, President Joe Biden.

Despite embracing an arguably broader framing of “reproductive freedom” when campaigning on abortion access than Biden has in office, Vice President Harris is on record supporting a restoration of Roe. That position places her squarely in line with centrists who still see the Roe compromise as a comfortable and workable political framework for abortion. But unlike Biden, Harris may be moveable, and advocates are doing the right thing by continuing to push her.

When Harris first ran for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Roe was still the law of the land. Then, she stood apart from other Democratic candidates on abortion with a thoughtful—if flawed—proposal to require that state-level abortion restrictions receive federal “pre-clearance” before going into effect. The model was based on how the now-gutted Voting Rights Act treated state-level restrictions on voting rights. While it certainly wouldn’t have fixed the mess made by Roe—let alone the mess made worse by reversing it—Harris deserves points for taking a different approach than the rest of the Democrats. And maybe, just maybe, that kind of tactical and creative approach to the abortion access crisis is evidence that a President Harris could be moved to embrace and advocate for something beyond Roe.

The Democratic National Convention would be a great time for Harris to make that kind of pivot official.