The Combat For Abortion Rights “Is not Over” In US, Says Joe Biden

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The battle for abortion rights “is not over,” US President Joe Biden mentioned Sunday, 50 years after a landmark Supreme Court docket ruling had assured that proper, earlier than the court docket reversed itself in June.

“At present ought to’ve been the fiftieth Anniversary of Roe v. Wade,” the Democratic president mentioned on Twitter, referring to the unique ruling.

“As an alternative, MAGA Republican officers” — supporters of former president Donald Trump, together with his Make America Nice Once more slogan — “are waging a conflict on girls’s proper to make their very own well being care selections.”

Biden added: “I have never stopped combating to guard girls’s reproductive rights – and I by no means will.”

His powers to have an effect on abortion rights, nonetheless, are comparatively restricted, with the battle principally happening now on the state degree.

The Supreme Court docket’s gorgeous reversal in June got here after three Trump-appointed justices gave conservatives a high-court majority.

Since then, some 20 Republican-led US states have handed legal guidelines banning or severely limiting abortion rights.

In his sequence of tweets Sunday, Biden mentioned that “a lady’s proper to decide on is non-negotiable,” and he referred to as on Congress to move laws codifying the abortion rights specified by the Roe case.

However with Republicans now accountable for the Home of Representatives, the decrease chamber of Congress, such laws has just about no probability of succeeding.

Since June, Biden has needed to accept issuing comparatively restricted orders, resembling authorizing Veterans Administration hospitals to offer abortion companies.

Vice President Kamala Harris is anticipated on Sunday to mark Roe’s fiftieth anniversary by saying some new rule adjustments.

The White Home, for instance, needs to guard entry to mifepristone-based capsules, which can be utilized to finish a being pregnant within the early weeks.

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