Posted on 07/10/2022 9:57:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday he is considering declaring a public health emergency to free up federal resources to promote abortion access even though the White House has said it doesn’t seem like “a great option.”
He also offered a message to people enraged by the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that ended a constitutional right to abortion and who have been demonstrating across the country: “Keep protesting. Keep making your point. It’s critically important.”
The president, in remarks to reporters during a stop on a bike ride near his family’s Delaware beach house, said he lacks the power to force the dozen-plus states with strict restrictions or outright bans on abortion to allow the procedure.
“I don’t have the authority to say that we’re going to reinstate Roe v. Wade as the law of the land,” he said, referring to the Supreme Court’s decision from 1973 that had established a national right to abortion. Biden said Congress would have to codify that right and for that to have a better chance in the future, voters would have to elect more lawmakers who support abortion access.
The president said he has asked officials “to look at whether I have the authority to do that and what impact that would have.”
On Friday, Jen Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said it “didn’t seem like a great option.”
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It is time to ignore these declarations. Making everything an “emergency” means nothing is an emergency.
Didn’t end a constitutional right
Corrected an error that said there was a constitutional right
Never was one, prior SCROTUS pulled it out of their unicorn buttholes
Isn’t the Hyde Amendment still law?
Goo I am sure the GOP will just let him to it...no court - no nothing unlike the left who sued Trump for every bill he did......and had their Judges “stay” a lot of stuff
Start with mental health dummy
Biden..”Health Emergency”= Not enough Black babies being murdered in the womb. The Marxists are sick!!!
Biden (or the group controlling his puppet strings) are really freaking out about the abortion ruling.
They’re acting like desperate children who were told “no” for the first time ever and are bound and determined to get what they WANT via whatever means necessary. Legal or not. Because they WANT it.
The health emergency is the threat to the baby’s life.
May Biden and the Left experience those kinds of health emergencies that they may repent in Jesus name.
Oh, good. Please make sure it includes funding for my access to an abortion as a 71-year old pregnant male.
Don’t make me file a lawsuit for disrespecting my identity!
And they call conservatives “extreme” …
Killers gotta kill.
Congress has no power to establish “rights”. Congress can only enact legislation to enable the executive branch to protect rights liberties and immunities that the constitution enumerations, and to make laws “ necessary and proper”, and to provide for the general welfare “.
We have idiots, morons and anti- rational people in office at every level.
What is really a health emergency, among many others, is allowing untold numbers of illegals into the country with every conceivable transmissible, incurable disease.
And will any elected Republican offer the slightest protest?
Some time ago, when Vitter was a senator, during a town meeting I asked him about that. He readily agreed, but he quickly pivoted away from my language, and relegated it to a mere health concern. Can’t be extremist, racist, you know.
BS. It just remanded it to the states where it belongs. Under federalism, the states continue to have the right to regulate abortion. That right REMAINS Constitutionally protected.
Seems no one wants to change things the right way. Or perhaps they already know they cannot change it via the ballot box.
Another one of the Left’s Fake Crisis
“Emergency” now means “I want to do something so I’m just gonna”
Indeed. No federal funds for abortion, wink wink at planned Parenthood.....
What grade is this guy??? He acts like a 3rd grader..
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