In abortion rights debate, Biden doesn’t often use the word
December 27, 2021 | District of Columbia
President Joe Biden insists that he strongly believes in the rights spelled out in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that are now under the most dire threat in decades.
But he barely even uses the word “abortion” and when his administration has been asked about what it can do to protect reproductive rights, the response has mostly been that Congress must write the landmark court decision into law, a strategy that is highly likely to fail.
To women who rallied to Biden‘s presidential campaign in no small part to protect the landmark 1973 court ruling, that’s not nearly enough.
The administration’s measured response to a series of major setbacks for the right to have an abortion lacks in urgency for many advocates, who feel Biden should be doing more after the conservative-majority Supreme Court signaled a willingness to strike down all or part of the rights enshrined in the case that legalized abortion….(Excerpts from the Washington Times)
