Biden calls abortion ruling 'a sad day' for country

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that “it’s a sad day for the court and the country” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

“Now with Roe gone, let’s be very clear, the health and life of women across this nation are now at risk,” he said from the White House.

He added that “the court has done what it’s never done before — expressly taking away a constitution right that is so fundamental to so many Americans,” he said.

The White House has been preparing for this moment since a draft of the decision leaked in May. Officials have been huddling with state leaders, advocates, health care professionals and others to prepare for a future without Roe v. Wade.



President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022, with governors, labor leaders, and private companies launching the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership. The new partnership focuses on boosting the offshore wind industry. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


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[rockfordfile]

1. I agree

Vote out republicans

[Bobstandard]

2. That's it?

I wonder how Teddy Roosevelt would have put it?
With a little more fire and brimstone, I suspect.

[nykym]

3. Time to repeal

the Hyde amendment since abortion is now illegal.
No need for it.

[cloudboy07]

4. new theme to me - " REPUBLICAN party IS DEAD TO ME!"

[Magoo48]

5. Our troubles of today will only become corrected at the top, or by voting, if there is Massive,

Sustained movement at the grassroots. Talk is our only opposition now and talk is cheaper than ever. Hope, faith, and intentions are great, but without works they’re dead. Direct actions and sustained, peaceful civil-disobedience is the only way out of this ongoing erosion of our freedoms.

[Pete Ross Junior]

6. Just how bad is it?

https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe

22 states have laws that could be used to restrict the legal status of abortion.

--7 states retain their unenforced, pre-Roe abortion bans.

-- 13 states have post-Roe laws to ban all or nearly all abortions that would be triggered if Roe were overturned.

-- 9 states have unconstitutional post-Roe restrictions that are currently blocked by courts but could be brought back into effect with a court order in Roe’s absence.

-- 7 states have laws that express the intent to restrict the right to legal abortion to the maximum extent permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the absence of Roe.

-- 4 states have passed a constitutional amendment explicitly declaring that their constitution does not secure or protect the right to abortion or allow use of public funds for abortion.

16 states and the District of Columbia have laws that protect the right to abortion.

-- 4 states and the District of Columbia have codified the right to abortion throughout pregnancy without state interference.

-- 12 states explicitly permit abortion prior to viability or when necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.