Wednesday, May 4, 2022
In discussing the possibility that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the president did not refer to what’s at stake as women’s health or reproductive health, nor did he even say fetus or pregnancy. Instead, he was clear that it's “a child” that's killed in the procedure.
"The idea that we're going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child, based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think goes way overboard,” Biden said Tuesday, emphasis added. "If this decision holds, it's really quite a radical decision.”
But President Biden has not always been such an ardent supporter of a woman's — or birthing person's, according to his budget request — right to kill their unborn child.
As a relatively new U.S. Senator, Biden voted for a 1982 proposal that would have allowed individual states to overturn Roe v. Wade within their jurisdiction.
