At a press conference in Madrid on Thursday, President Biden launched an unusual attack on the Supreme Court and was "outrageous" during the overthrow. He blamed the High Bench for "Action." Roe v. Before Wade added last week that he endorsed a Senate Democrat who changed the 60-vote filibuster to systematize the right to abortion into the law.
"One of the uncertainties is the exorbitant behavior of the US Supreme Court," Biden told reporters at the end of this week's NATO summit. "And it not only overturns the Roe v. Wade case, but essentially challenges the right to privacy. We have been a world leader in personal and privacy rights, and that's a mistake. In my view that the Supreme Court does what it did. "
" We believe that the Roe v. Wade case needs to be legalized. The way to do that is in Congress. Is to make sure that they vote to do that, "Biden later said. "And if the filibuster gets in the way ... we make an exception to this."
The Democratic Party once before enshrining the right to abortion under federal law Attempts were made, but they did not do so before the Supreme Court ruled at the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Agency on June 24.
In that ruling, the court upheld the Mississippi Act, which bans procedures after 15 weeks of gestation, leaving the final decision on whether abortion is legal to voters and their representatives. Certified.
Two moderate Democratic senators, Joe Manchin, West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona, change the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass most bills. Expressed opposition to.
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