President Joe Biden and his campaign spent Monday hammering former President Donald Trump on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that reversed the nationwide right to abortion.

Biden posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: “Donald Trump is proud to have overturned Roe v. Wade. We know what will happen if he gets another four years in the White House: He’ll try to ban the right to choose nationwide. This November, we must stop him.”

During a campaign event in College Park, Maryland, Vice President Kamala Harris said Trump is “guilty” of “the stealing of reproductive freedom from the women of America.”

“This is a health care crisis, and we all know who was to blame — Donald Trump,” Harris said. 

“Donald Trump thinks the government is in a better position to tell women what's in their best interest than women are to know for themselves,” the vice president said. “But Joe Biden and I trust women, and women trust all of us to fight for their most fundamental freedoms. And fight we will.”

The Biden campaign released a new ad starring Kaitlyn Joshua, a Louisiana woman who was turned away from two emergency rooms while experiencing a miscarriage because, she says, doctors were scared off by Louisiana's anti-abortion laws. Joshua says in the ad the pain she felt was “excruciating.” 

“That was a direct result of Donald Trump overturning Roe v Wade,” Joshua says. “He's now a convicted felon. Trump thinks he should not be held accountable for his own criminal actions, but he will let women and doctors be punished.”

Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement about the ad: “Because Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, Kaitlyn’s story is now the reality for women across the country.”

Trump has boasted about nominating three of the conservative justices who voted to reverse Roe v. Wade, returning abortion laws to the states. But he has softened his tone publicly on the issue, as polls and public referendums have shown most Americans support access to abortion.

When running for president in 2016, Trump said “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who illegally get an abortion. The following year, the White House said he “strongly” supported a bill that would have banned most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. 

But when asked today if he would sign a national abortion ban, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee says he defers to the states to set their laws.

“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both,” Trump said in a video in April. “And whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state.”

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment Monday. Biden and Trump will hold their first debate of the election season Thursday in Atlanta.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights policy think tank, 28 states now have abortion laws that it classifies as either the most restrictive, very restrictive or restrictive.

“Across the country, women have lost access to life-saving reproductive health care and now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison and Vice Chair Lottie Shackelford said in a joint statement. “The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade set the clock back on decades of progress and ripped away women's control over their own health, bodies, and futures.    

“Make no mistake: This is Donald Trump’s fault, and when it comes to our reproductive freedoms, this is Donald Trump’s America,” they added.

The White House hosted a call with reporters Monday morning but did not mention Trump by name, instead more broadly aiming their attacks at Republican lawmakers. They shared stories about challenges, including health emergencies, faced by pregnant women in states with abortion bans.

“We've heard gut-wrenching stories of women being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court for the care they need or travel thousands of miles out of state for care that would have been available if Roe were still the law of the land,” said Jen Klein, director of the White House’s Gender Policy Council. “These stories should never happen in America.”

They also highlighted actions taken by Biden as president, including by educating patients and health care providers about their rights and obligations for emergency treatment, by working to protect access to medication abortion and by strengthening privacy laws related to reproductive health care. 

The White House, like the campaign and other Democrats, accused Republicans of wanting to pass a national abortion ban and restrict access to in vitro fertilization and contraception.

“It’s extreme, it's out of touch, and it's wrong,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

GOP lawmakers largely insist they support IVF and birth control, but Senate Republicans recently blocked bills that would have protected both, dismissing the votes as election-year political stunts.