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Washington — President Joe Biden told a group of U.S. Governor of the Democratic Party on Friday to abandon the obstruction to protect the right to abortion after the Supreme Court ruled Roe v. Wade in 1973. He said he didn't have enough votes in the Senate.
Biden has asked the Senate to consider removing filibuster to legislate the protection of the abortion right in the Roe v. Wade case.
Democrat Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, had long supported filibuster, but because the Republicans blocked some of his major initiatives, including the voting bill. Be more open to changing filibusters.
"As I said yesterday, filibuster shouldn't prevent us from doing what we can (encoding Roe to federal law)," Biden said. Abortion is legal in New York and California, told the governor's virtual meeting.
Thursday's Biden proposed that the US Senator remove the filibuster to protect the right to abortion, but the proposal was shot down by a key Democratic aide.
On Friday, New York Governor Kathy Hokul told the group that "a handful of states" would have to manage the health of women across the country. After the Supreme Court's decision on June 24, 13 states have banned or severely restricted procedures under the so-called "trigger law."
"There is such stress there," Hochul said. "It's a matter of life and death for American women," she added.
(Report by Jeff Mason and Susan Heavey by Rami Ayyub, edited by Alistair Bell)
