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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There...fixed.
Why don't they just go straight for a Constitutional "Right to Kill Your Baby" (RTKYB) Amendment? I'm sure lots of states would ratify it and the progs could feel real good that their insane state ratified it.
Brandon: “Keep protesting. Keep making your point. It’s critically important that we continue to kill babies, especially those of color!”
Fixed.
Ignore this ghoulish, foolish, decrepit, senile, selected-not-elected, j@ckass!
I didn’t even know he was “with child”. 😂🙌
Yes, and Biden supported it for decades....
He left it out of the 2023 budget proposal,but I think conservative members of Congress will likely make it part of the budget or it will be a major sticking point....shut it down!
2 1/2 more years...
There won’t be a legal way to win elections in 2 1/2 years from now.
Really?
Another day, another illegal, unconstitutional executive order from the voice inside Pedo Joe’s earpiece.
File this one under “Il Duce says.”
Good the demented old fool realizes that at least.
Bottom line, the decision makes abortion less convenient for some.
That's it.
Good point. The failure to use that two letter word has sent this society down the tubes.
Damn I hope you are wrong.
More evidence — as if any were needed — that the “emergency” powers held by executives need to be pared back greatly.
Not entirely up to the GOP to sue Joe Dementia if he tried such an unconstitutional trick. Plenty of conservative outfits including Judicial Watch will eagerly take him on.
We will win the midterms this year, just like we won in Virginia last year. The legal way.
Making it law that you can kill babies is not the answer.
MORALITY is the answer. You cannot kill babies because you want to.
public health emergency = tested political strategy from Covid
The health of the baby? /sarc
And keep protesting? What a waste of energy. What you should ask your RAT congresscritters, especially in light of the decision leak, where is the legislation for an Amendment??? Shouldn’t it be ready to go with all that prep time? (confidential, they know it won’t pass)
Besides, as Obamacare showed, the Feds know healthcare is an Article 10 state matter. So ask your local reps, too, what are they going to do about it? That goes for either side of the issue.
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