The President of the USA, Joe Biden has weighed in on the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion showing the panel’s conservative majority of justices is on course to overturn nearly 50 years of established abortion rights in America.
According to Biden; ‘It concerns me a great deal that, after 50 years, we’re going to decide that a woman doesn’t have the right to choose,’ Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, en route to Alabama to visit a facility that manufactures Javelin anti-tank missiles.
He went on to add that ‘But even more equally profound is the rationale used — and it would mean that every other decision relating to the notion of privacy is thrown into question.’
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The idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child, based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think goes way overboard,’ he submitted.
Below is the full Presidential statement as obtained by Africa Today News, New York.
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON REPORTED SUPREME COURT DECISION DRAFT
We do not know whether this draft is genuine, or whether it reflects the final decision of the Court. With that critical caveat, I want to be clear on three points about the cases before the Supreme Court.
First, my administration argued strongly before the Court in defense of Roe v. Wade.
We said that Roe is based on a long line of precedent recognizing ‘the Fourteenth
Amendment’s concept of personal liberty… against government interference with intensely personal decisions.” I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental,
Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the
stability of our law demand that it not be overturned.
Second, shortly after the enactment of Texas law SB 8 and other laws restricting women’s reproductive rights, I directed my Gender Policy Council and White House Counsel’s Office to prepare options for an Administration response to the continued
attack on abortion and reproductive rights, under a variety of possible outcomes in the
cases pending before the Supreme Court. We will be ready when any ruling is issued.
Third, 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. And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November. 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.