The US president says he will seek to enshrine the protections of Roe v Wade into US law
US President Joe Biden urged the election of more legislators who supported abortion rights and said he would seek to enshrine the protections of Roe v Wade into US law, following a report that the US Supreme Court was poised to overturn the landmark ruling.
Politico reported on Monday night that it had obtained a draft majority opinion of the justices that would strike down the 1973 ruling, touching off demonstrations outside the Supreme Court. Striking down Roe would reshape the battle between Democrats and Republicans for control of Congress in the November midterm elections, potentially energising both parties’ bases. Congress’s top two Democrats — Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and house speaker Nancy Pelosi — said in a statement on Monday night that the decision “would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history”.
A House-passed bill to codify Roe was blocked in February in the Senate on a 46-48 vote. West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat who has obstructed much of President Joe Biden’s agenda, voted with Republicans to filibuster the bill. And some key supporters of abortion rights — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have long opposed changing the 60-vote threshold for advancing such bills.
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