{"id":232169,"date":"2020-10-06T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=232169"},"modified":"2020-11-01T20:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T02:58:36","slug":"biden-vows-make-roe-v-wade-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-vows-make-roe-v-wade-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden vows to make Roe v. Wade the ‘law of the land’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised that if elected, he will enact legislation to codify Roe v. Wade<\/em> if Judge Amy Coney Barrett<\/a> is confirmed to the Supreme Court, leading the Court to strike down the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States.<\/p>\n

During an NBC town hall<\/a> on Monday night, an audience member called access to abortion “imperative” to her earning a college degree and beginning her career. She wanted to know what Biden’s plan is to protect access to abortion in the United States.<\/p>\n

“I knew whenever I was graduating high school and entering college that I wanted to obtain my degree and start a career before starting a family,” said Cassidy Brown. “Having access to birth control and safe reproductive health care was imperative to making that true for me. So considering the new Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett what are your particular plans to protect women’s reproductive rights in the US?”<\/p>\n

“Number one, we don’t know exactly what she’ll do, although expectation is that she may very well move to overview \u2014 overrule \u2014 Roe<\/em>,” said Biden. “And the only thing, the only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation making Roe<\/em> the law of the land. That’s what I would do.”<\/p>\n

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Roe v. Wade must remain the law of the land. pic.twitter.com\/1Gq6Ncc2IK<\/a><\/p>\n

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n