NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that Democrats still lack the power to codify abortion rights into law despite his party’s stronger-than-expected performance in the midterm elections.
“I don’t think there’s enough votes,” he said at a press conference during the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia.
Biden’s blunt comments reflected how Democrats’ euphoria over their strength in the midterms will soon collide with the likely reality of divided government in Washington.
During the campaign, Biden said that if Democrats picked up seats, the first piece of legislation that he would send to Congress would be to enact a nationwide right to abortion.
The right was previously guaranteed only by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and the court’s conservative majority overturned that ruling earlier this year.
Although Democrats defied historical odds by avoiding a midterm wipeout, they did not gain enough ground to ensure abortion access nationwide.
Asked what voters might expect on the issue, Biden replied, “I don’t think they can expect much of anything.”
Although ballots are still being counted, Republicans are on track to take control of the House of Representatives by a narrow margin, putting them in position to block any abortion legislation.
“I think it’s gonna be very close, but I don’t think we’re gonna make it,” Biden said.
Democrats will maintain control of the Senate, and may even expand their majority after next month’s runoff in Georgia. But some members of the party have been unwilling to sidestep filibuster rules to pass an abortion law.
Biden previously said “we need two more senators” to codify abortion rights, a reference to Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who want to preserve the filibuster.
If Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia wins a second term next month, Democrats will have only gained one seat.
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Megerian reported from Washington.
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baby killers R us you do know that these so called women will have to answer for killing there unborn child.
millenial women have been brain washed by liberals and not taught by there parents to respect life.
keep your legs closed use protection but dont kill your baby.
Exactly what human right gives a woman the right to murder her unborn baby?
What about the Baby’s human rights?
A woman’s body ends at the end of the baby’s umbilical cord and that is where the baby’s body begins.
It is NOT THE WOMAN’S BODY THAT THEY ARE KILLING; it is the baby’s body!!
AND If they’ve already HAD an abortion or two.. Perhaps they should get their TUBES TIED.
So in essence the Democrats won the mid-terms with two big lie promises they knew up front would be either be reversed by the Supreme Courts or fall short with Congressional votes.
“History repeats itself. Liars will be liars, cheaters will be cheaters, and the person who has always been there for you, will always be.” – (And it won’t be Self-serving Joe Biden)
Liars are Cowards! . People willing to COVID kill thousands of innocents to remain in power, while they kill their own innocents in the womb, and the innocence of their children in premature sex education are not just emboldened cowards, they are deadly vicious social warriors and need to be treated as such.
This Democratic Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will never be able to preserve it, nor the Democracy they claim to be so concerned with, which bears the mislabeled name of their Party no longer democratic, but secular socialist.
Fool THE PEOPLE once shame on you, fool us twice, and thrice, shame on THE PEOPLE who now use cowardice and reality denial as their safety zone.