Posted on 07/10/2022 12:48:29 PM PDT by Morgana
President Joe Biden suggested on Sunday that he's in talks with staff about the viability of declaring a public health emergency in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health.
It comes hours after his White House finally snapped back at progressives who had been blasting Biden for not doing enough to protect abortion rights.
The high court sided with Mississippi prosecutors late last month on their request to scuttle the federal abortion protections granted by Roe v. Wade.
Biden was on his way to a bike ride near his residence in Delaware on Sunday when he stopped to speak to reporters, who asked if he was considering declaring a public health emergency regarding abortion access.
The president responded that he was asking his staff to see 'whether I have the authority' and what the impacts would be.
He also shared words of encouragement for women who were demonstrating against Supreme Court's decision, telling them to 'keep protesting.'
'Keep making your point. It’s critically important. We can do a lot of things to accommodate the rights of women,' the president said.
'In the meantime, fundamentally, the only way to change this is to have a national law that reinstates Roe v Wade.'
Biden's efforts to protect abortion access have been blasted by member of his own party for not going far enough.
Multiple reports have suggested that the White House has bristled at demands from progressives that they see as a fine sentiment but unrealistic to implement, such as calls to build abortion clinics on federal land in states where the practice is now banned.
Biden's outgoing communications director, Kate Bedingfield, unleashed against those Democratic critics in a statement to the Washington Post published on Saturday evening.
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These people are straight from the pits of hell.
“He certainly does not have the Constitutional authority to do so and viability means he has to see whether the Republicans will allow him to slip it through.”
The Republicans won’t even unite to fight an unqualified female Supreme Court nominee who can’t define the word “woman”, yet is heralded by Democrats and the media as the first black woman justice. Where are the Republican voices screaming about 3 million illegals crossing the border each year, the Mexican cartels freely engaging in human trafficking and narcotics trafficking across the southern border. Where are the GOP complaints about denial of due process for the January 6 protestors? The depletion of the US petroleum reserve by shipping oil and refined products to Europe, China, and South American results in barely a whimper as does the depletion of the US arsenal due to supplies being sent to Ukraine. Is there any pressure from the GOP to cut off federal aid to schools and colleges engaged in racist CRT indoctrination? Any concern about armed forces being unable to fill recruiting quotas even after dropping the high school diploma requirement and opening the armed services to homosexuals and transgenders as well as allowing women to serve in combat?
If Biden issued an executive order overturning the recent Supreme Court decision, would we finally see some fight from the GOP?
“It’s not public health and it’s not an emergency.”
And abortion is not covered in the Constitution. And medical decisions are covered in the 10th amendment as states rights.
But for him, that won’t stop him from saying something stupid.
wy69
“...the viability of declaring a public health emergency....”
A Republic, if you can keep it.
pospotus inciting riots?
<>’Keep protesting. Keep making your point. It’s critically important,’ he said.<>
Further proof the rats regard Scotus as a political institution.
Biden stopped his bike ride, eh? Did he fall over again?
I am just waiting until we can provide retro-abortions to the protestors.
The president responded that he was asking his staff to see 'whether I have the authority' their permission'
Fixed for accuracy.
Pregnancy is not a disease.
How about uphill?
Declaring a Public Health Emergency is the sure fire way to throw the Constitution in the garage.
What exactly would that emergency be? Childbirth?
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