President Joe Biden traveled to Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Thursday to pay respects to and visit with the family of the state's former first lady Ellen Casey.
Casey was married to former Gov. Bob Casey Sr. until his death in 2000, and their son, Bob Casey Jr. , currently serves as the junior senator from the state.The Casey men, both Democrats, were devout Catholics. Like Biden himself for much of his political career, he often voted against the party on abortion rights.
"She was an incredible woman, and she raised an enormously successful and decent family," he continued."All the values I learned, I learned them here in Scranton, and she was an embodiment of them." Biden has backed abortion rights in the fallout from Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 2022's Supreme Court decision striking down Roe 30 years after Casey, but the president, who has said he personally disapproves of abortion but supports a woman's right to choose the procedure, often flip-flopped on the issue during his tenure in the Senate."I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far," he said in 1974.
Still, Biden has been arguably the strongest advocate for abortion access in response to a string of red state bans, certainly more than any Republican he might face in the general election, and there is growing evidence to support Democrats' notion that the issue could be a top one for voters in November 2024.
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