‘Freedom of worship’ doesn’t cut it, Madam Vice President

“Freedom, I believe, is fundamental to the promise of America,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in Wisconsin on Tuesday. She was, of course, talking about the freedom to terminate a pregnancy by abortion, but she wanted to frame abortion freedom in a broader panoply of freedoms, which she then listed: “Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly, the freedom to vote.”

There are a few nits to pick with that list — isn’t voting better described as a privilege of citizenship rather than a freedom? — but the most interesting detail is that Harris exhibits the same tic as Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama by saying “freedom to worship.”