{"id":236331,"date":"2020-12-15T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=236331"},"modified":"2020-12-15T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:02:13","slug":"president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/","title":{"rendered":"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went ‘too far.’ Now, he intends to take it further."},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

On December 14, the<\/span> Electoral College officially voted<\/span><\/a> to make Joseph R. Biden, Jr. the 46th President of the United States. Biden, who previously served as the first Roman Catholic Vice President of the United States under President Barack Obama, will become the second Roman Catholic president. John F. Kennedy was the first. Biden has, over the years, gradually supported more pro-abortion positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden once opposed Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden entered the US Senate in 1973, the same month that the Supreme Court ruled in <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i> that women have a fundamental right to <\/span>abortion<\/span><\/a>. At the time, <\/span>Biden publicly opposed the decision<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>saying<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI don\u2019t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden once opposed taxpayer funding of abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden was an <\/span>early supporter of the Hyde Amendment<\/span><\/a>, which bans federal taxpayer funding of elective abortions, including through Medicaid. He also supported a constitutional amendment to allow states to overturn <\/span>Roe<\/span><\/i>. Then,\u00a0<\/span>in 1983, Biden voted against that same constitutional amendment that he had previously supported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden once opposed funding abortions in foreign countries<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1984, Biden supported the \u201cMexico City Policy\u201d first put in place under President Reagan, which <\/span>prohibits federal funding for international organizations<\/span><\/a> that provide abortion referrals and counseling, or which advocate for the decriminalization of abortion in foreign countries. In <\/span>1993<\/span><\/a>, President Clinton rescinded this policy, which was reinstated in 2001 under President Bush. President Obama then rescinded the policy again in 2009, and President Trump again reinstated the policy in 2017. Biden is <\/span>expected to rescind the policy by executive order<\/span><\/a> upon taking office in January of 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1994, Biden insisted, \u201cThose of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.\u201d Throughout the 1990s, Biden consistently favored banning partial-birth abortion and voted in favor of a 2003 federal ban. But in 2007, when the US Supreme Court upheld the federal partial-birth abortion ban in <\/span>Gonzales v. Carhart<\/span><\/i>, Biden criticized the ruling as \u201cpaternalistic.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden’s positions eventually\u00a0became fully pro-abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

When running for president in 2008, <\/span>Biden said on <\/span>Meet the Press<\/span><\/i><\/a> he was \u201cprepared to accept\u201d the Catholic Church\u2019s view<\/span> that life begins at conception and that he was \u201cstill opposed to public funding for abortion.\u201d When asked in the same interview about his changing views on abortion, Biden said,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot… I\u2019m a practicing Catholic, and it is the biggest dilemma for me in terms of comporting my… religious and cultural views with my political responsibility.\u201d He went on to defend <\/span>Roe<\/span><\/i> to being \u201cas close to we\u2019re going get\u201d in a pluralistic society of multiple religious faiths to dealing with the moral issue of abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By 2020, Biden had come to support <\/span>taxpayer-funded abortion<\/span><\/a> and the<\/span> codification of <\/span>Roe<\/span><\/i><\/a> into law. He also reversed his previous position on the<\/span> Hyde Amendment<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Biden also plans to <\/span>restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood through Title X\u2019s family planning program<\/span><\/a>, reversing the <\/span>Trump administration\u2019s rule<\/span><\/a> prohibiting Title X recipients from referring for or providing abortions. This rule change led Planned Parenthood to walk away from $60 million in federal funding<\/a>, refusing to separate its abortion business fiscally and physically from its other family planning services.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s largest abortion corporation <\/span>supported Biden during the 2020 election<\/span><\/a> and is a longtime donor and supporter of his running-mate, <\/span>Vice President-elect Kamala Harris<\/span><\/a>. The former California Attorney General initiated the investigation and eventual prosecution of pro-life undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt after they had exposed Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of body parts of aborted children. Harris\u2019 successor, current <\/span>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra<\/span><\/a>, continued that investigation and prosecution of the pro-life journalists. Last week, Biden announced his nomination of Becerra to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joseph R. Biden, Jr. the 46th President of the United States. Biden, who previously served as the first Roman Catholic Vice President of the United States under President Barack Obama, will become the second Roman Catholic president. John F. Kennedy was the first. Biden has, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":236337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPresident-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went 'too far.' Now, he intends to take it further.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joe Biden the 46th President. Over the years, he has supported more pro-abortion positions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went 'too far.' Now, he intends to take it further.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joe Biden the 46th President. Over the years, he has supported more pro-abortion positions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-15T13:33:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-16T05:02:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1291300530-Biden-e1608094925152.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1190\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"589\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7adef4e0468d5391aea329fa8c00c22d\"},\"headline\":\"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went ‘too far.’ Now, he intends to take it further.\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-15T13:33:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-16T05:02:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\"},\"wordCount\":684,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Newsbreak\",\"Politics\",\"Top Story on Homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\",\"name\":\"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went 'too far.' Now, he intends to take it further.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-15T13:33:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-16T05:02:13+00:00\",\"description\":\"On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joe Biden the 46th President. Over the years, he has supported more pro-abortion positions.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went ‘too far.’ Now, he intends to take it further.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7adef4e0468d5391aea329fa8c00c22d\",\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6b8a6c2ff511d2531148e6513f47ebf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6b8a6c2ff511d2531148e6513f47ebf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Newsroom\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/webteam\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went 'too far.' Now, he intends to take it further.","description":"On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joe Biden the 46th President. Over the years, he has supported more pro-abortion positions.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went 'too far.' Now, he intends to take it further.","og_description":"On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joe Biden the 46th President. Over the years, he has supported more pro-abortion positions.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2020-12-15T13:33:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-12-16T05:02:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1190,"height":589,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1291300530-Biden-e1608094925152.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Newsroom","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Newsroom","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/"},"author":{"name":"Newsroom","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7adef4e0468d5391aea329fa8c00c22d"},"headline":"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went ‘too far.’ Now, he intends to take it further.","datePublished":"2020-12-15T13:33:31+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-16T05:02:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/"},"wordCount":684,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Newsbreak","Politics","Top Story on Homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/","name":"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went 'too far.' Now, he intends to take it further.","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-12-15T13:33:31+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-16T05:02:13+00:00","description":"On December 14, the Electoral College officially voted to make Joe Biden the 46th President. Over the years, he has supported more pro-abortion positions.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/president-elect-biden-roe-too-far-further\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"President-elect Biden once felt Roe v. Wade went ‘too far.’ Now, he intends to take it further."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7adef4e0468d5391aea329fa8c00c22d","name":"Newsroom","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6b8a6c2ff511d2531148e6513f47ebf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6b8a6c2ff511d2531148e6513f47ebf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Newsroom"},"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/webteam\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236338,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236331\/revisions\/236338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}