Other top Democrats have issued similar scathing rebukes of the leaked draft. '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.' And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November,' Biden said in his first statement of the day. '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.
BIDEN: 'There are so many fundamental rights that are affected by that, and I'm not prepared to leave that to the whims of the public at the moment.' /60A8ma69ff- May 3, 2022īiden, a Catholic, has said he is personally anti-abortion but respects a woman's right to have the procedure, and his comments marked the first time he has said the word 'abortion' since being sworn in as president.
