President Joe Biden expressed alarm on Tuesday about the report of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that strikes down the court’s landmark 1973 abortion ruling Roe vs. Wade.
Politico reported the draft late Monday, in which the court — along ideological lines — dismisses Roe vs. Wade as “egregiously wrong from the start.”
Legal experts have said that the draft opinion almost certainly is not the high court’s finally crafted opinion, as it was written in February and opinions routinely undergo changes before they are released.
The draft, however, has set off a wave of alarm nationwide among supporters of the 1973 ruling and abortion rights advocates.
“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,” Biden said in a statement.
“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.
If the Supreme Court does overturn Roe vs. Wade, it will be up to each state to determine the legal status of the procedure. Many have already made moves to ban abortion based on an expected dismissal from the high court. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI
“Second, shortly after the enactment of [the] Texas [abortion law] 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.”
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, the move would leave it entirely up to each state to determine the procedure’s legality. Several states like Texas have already passed heavily restrictive laws against abortion, while others like California and New York have explicit protections.
The high court’s ruling will be based on a Mississippi case that was argued before the high court in December. The ruling was expected to come sometime in June before the court’s term ends.
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Pelosi and Schumer issue remarks on abortion
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer issued this statement following media reports of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling:
“If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years not just on women but on all Americans.
“The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.
“Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century.
“The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now completely devolved into the party of Trump. Every Republican Senator who supported Senator McConnell and voted for Trump Justices pretending that this day would never come will now have to explain themselves to the American people.”
BREAKING – Chief Justice on #SCOTUS leak: pic.twitter.com/a346EUHjoD
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) May 3, 2022
Last night’s stunning breach was an attack on the independence of the Supreme Court. By every indication, this was yet another escalation in the radical left’s ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and substitute mob rule for the rule of law. pic.twitter.com/wvigWvPqm7
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) May 3, 2022
Former Clinton campaign official tweeted this:
Is a brave clerk taking this unpredecented step of leaking a draft opinion to warn the country what's coming in a last-ditch Hail Mary attempt to see if the public response might cause the Court to reconsider?
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) May 3, 2022
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You can’t use “fairness” and “Biden” in the same sentence. He is oblivious as to what fairness is.
THE PEOPLE have witnessed for the past 16 months in office that the only draft Joe Biden’s age depleted brain is fit to comment on is that which comes out of Hunter’s beer keg. The one exception is his expertise in dodging the draft during the Vietnam war having received FIVE student draft deferments during his time as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University where unlike his mentor Obama he actually registered under his real name. We have all witnessed how Joe has sacrificed his own son to get rich and famous, so why not sacrifice OURS like a true liberal who gets rich off of other people’s votes and life forces, never having a real job in his entire life that produced nothing other than consumption of the life force of others which over the past 52 years he has done so efficiently to his own enrichment. The concept of basic fairness to Joe is that he and his rats get all the cheese while the mice get led into the never-ending mazes of the windmills of his deranged Biden mind.
He is not oblivious. HE JUST doesn’t care.
This lying, demonic, corrupt, treasonous, puppet president F… joe Biden claims to be a devoted catholic??
F… joe Biden supports the killing of unborn babies.
F… joe Biden supports the lifestyle of the LGBTQ community.
F… joe Biden takes bribes from foreign countries.
Matthew 7:15-16 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them.
John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
If you have a.fender gender and a female loses her fetus ,you will be charged with vehicular manslaughter of the baby. So what’s the difference ?? The fetus is a baby there ??
That is actually an interesting proposition. Personally I think this entire episode (leaked SCOTUS paper) is a careful plan by the left to muddle the real issues that voters need to concentrate on in the next two elections. It is a third rail political issue that people will be fighting over until Hades freezes over. It is to the advantage of the leftists to get it out there front and center and obfuscate all the other dire issues we face resulting from actions by Biden and the democrats and turn what may be conservative voters into single issue “choice” advocates. I think this is a scary situation.
The press releases a story about the “leak” and within a few hours a large crowd of “protesters” mysteriously shows up. Looks like a set up to me.
AND note, all their signs, look PROFESSIONALLY made.. That’s not a “Spontaneous” rabble…
A point i have often raised, with those who i’ve known who have gone to law school.. WHY THE DOUBLE standard on what counts as murder/manslaughter?
One could say that the Dred Scott was bad precedent that took a war to overturn, Roe V Wade was poorly decided in the first place, members of the Court at the time who approved it knew, legal scholars knew it. I think it was justicw White who made the comment that the issue was not settled that it would return. President Biden cites the stability of the law as a reason to keep the ruling, the problem with that is there is no legislative LAW passed, it was judicial fiat based on an assumption that does not really appear in The Constitution, plus there has never been stability since the ruling was made, right to life marches and protests outnumbering anything the pro-abortion crowd was ever able to assemble!
The vile bloodthirsty DemonRats think nothing of slaughtering their own children in the name of “Choice” and yet scream to high heaven about anything that might threaten the wellbeing of any cute furry animal. They have sick twisted minds with no moral compass whatsoever.
YET they also claim “OUR body our choice” RE THIS, but look at just how far they went, to MANDATE people get the coof shot…
Demo Demons will Twist Everything and Anything to suit their Evil Killing Minds. They durther Kill a Festus that can’t defend itself. Only One’s that kill a Festus should be branded a BUTCHER.
It was not a ‘brave law clerk’ who leaked it…it was a CRIMINAL law clerk who leaked it (or whomever did the leaking). This is political at the deepest levels. My guess is that it was a law clerk who was instructed to ‘leak’ the document in order to sway opinion and change the ruling because one of, or all of, the liberal justices were sick about Roe v. Wade being tossed and giving power to decide to the states.
As for Biden…he needs to stop pretending that he is a “faithful, practicing Catholic president”. He is NOT. You cannot support abortion rights to the extent that he does, literally doing everything in his power to give women the right to kill an unborn, innocent, human being and still claim to be in communion with the Catholic Church.
The ‘I wouldn’t do it but I can’t stop others from doing it’ defense is weak at best. Actively supporting, encouraging, and promoting laws that allow for murder is too far away from the Catholic faith to argue that you are part of it.
God WILL prevail. A society that thinks it is OK to kill others in order that others may live as they wish is doomed. The Roman Empire had similar laws and socially acceptable actions. Christianity grew precisely because of the corruption and failed thinking of the rest of society. This society will fail as did the Roman Empire if we don’t find our way back to the right path.