He declined to comment on the possibility of changing Senate rules but vowed to sign any abortion access legislation into law should it be passed by Congress. ILHAN OMAR LEADS CALLS FOR COURT PACKING AFTER SCOTUS ABORTION OPINION LEAKS Several Democratic lawmakers have also escalated calls for packing the Supreme Court, a subject that a Biden administration review could not return a verdict on last year, and eliminating the filibuster to pass legislation codifying Roe. “The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now completely devolved into the party of Trump."
“Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the United States Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation - all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century," they continued.
Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history." "The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. "The Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years - not just on women but on all Americans," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in a joint statement. Other top Democrats have issued similar scathing rebukes of the leaked draft. "At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law."
And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November," Biden said in his first statement of the day. "If the court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose. BIDEN: "There are so many fundamental rights that are affected by that, and I'm not prepared to leave that to the whims of the public at the moment." /60A8ma69ff- May 3, 2022īiden, a Catholic, has said he is personally anti-abortion but respects a woman's right to have the procedure, and his comments marked the first time he has said the word "abortion" since being sworn in as president.