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President Joe Biden warned that a looming Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could have ramifications beyond the right to abortion established by the historic case in 1973.
"It's not just the brutality of taking away a woman's right to her body ... but it also, if you read the opinion ... basically says there's no such thing as the right to privacy," Biden said Wednesday at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Chicago.
The president referenced a leaked draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito which states that Roe was "egregiously wrong" and that the decision, as well as another in 1992 that upheld it, "must be overruled."
"If that holds ... mark my words: They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage," Biden, 79, said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-biden-says-same-sex-marriage-other-rights-at-risk-if-scotus-overturns-roe-mark-my-words/ar-AAXeU93
Mystery sage
(588 posts)The real question what are you gonna do about it!!
Phoenix61
(18,834 posts)Cuthbert Allgood
(5,339 posts)I remember campaign promises that Biden would be able to get things done because he could work across the aisle with his friends. It's probably time to do something.
If we don't blow shit up and get something done, we will lose the next election.
Phoenix61
(18,834 posts)For better or for worse that requires extensive cooperation from other branches.
MyMission
(2,010 posts)Executive branch can and should start that ball rolling, should have started it already.
The will of the majority of people is being subverted by a majority of conservative christian judges, on the current court. They hijacked it. We need to stop it.
Phoenix61
(18,834 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I know I will cry.
But then I might set things on fire.
Maybe.
dalton99a
(94,180 posts)andym
(6,066 posts)Many stated then that her ascension to the court meant the end of Roe V Wade and decisions of the SC that expanded rights.