Update 1/22/24: President Biden will meet with members of his Cabinet on Monday to discuss abortion on the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling that forced legalized abortion on every US state in 1973.
Biden has unleashed his new plans for his pro-abortion task force, saying he will “hear directly from physicians on the frontlines of the fallout” of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“Even as Americans — from Ohio to Kentucky to Michigan to Kansas to California — have resoundingly rejected attempts to limit reproductive freedom, Republican elected officials continue to push for a national ban and devastating new restrictions across the country,” Biden wrote in a statement Monday.
It was announced by a White House official that the Department of Health and Human Services will be launching a new effort to “educate all patients about their rights and to help ensure hospitals meet their obligations under federal law.”
In addition, the Biden administration said it will develop a “comprehensive plan” to increase awareness about the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Biden’s Department of Justice argues that EMTALA compels doctors to commit abortions when a pregnant woman faces a medical emergency. However, induced abortion –the direct and intentional killing of a preborn child — is not health care and is never needed to save a woman’s life.
The president is expected to meet with his pro-abortion task force today while Vice President Kamala Harris plans to travel to Wisconsin to launch her nationwide effort to push abortion on demand.
On Tuesday, Biden will join First Lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff in their first joint campaign appearance of 2024. They will appear at a pro-abortion rally in Virginia.
1/21/24: With campaigns for the November election in full swing, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have made clear one of their top priorities: abortion.
CBS News reports that the Biden/Harris campaign is preparing to unveil a plan that includes extensive ad buys, rallies, and events, all of which will underscore a “woman’s right to make her own health care decisions — including the very possible reality of a MAGA Republican-led national abortion ban.”
To start, there is a plan to launch television and digital ads on January 22 — the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade — that will showcase the “personal impact of abortion restrictions.” A Biden-Harris official told CBS News the ads are slated to appear in swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
“Trump directly paved the way for Republican extremists across the country to enact draconian bans that are hurting women and threatening doctors,” Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement. “In 2024, a vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is a vote to restore Roe, and a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to ban abortion across the country. These are the stakes in 2024 and we’re going to continue to make sure that every single voter knows it.”
Despite this claim, preborn protections do not hurt women. Dr. Ingrid Skop, a practicing OB/GYN and vice president of the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, has testified that women are in danger because doctors aren’t providing proper care — not because of pro-life laws. “Every single law allows an exclusion for a doctor to use their reasonable medical judgment to determine when to intervene in a medical emergency, which is usually defined as a threat to the life of the mother or permanent irreversible damage to an organ or an organ system,” she said last April.
The Biden campaign push appears to coincide with Harris’ “Reproductive Freedoms Tour” announced last month. That tour is also slated to launch on January 22.
Harris appeared on “The View” Wednesday, making it clear that expanding the so-called ‘right to abortion’ is one of the administration’s goals while also pushing the misguided view that abortion is nothing more than necessary health care — though the direct and intentional homicide of a child in the womb is never health care.
“Many of us often think about the future of our country in the context of our children, and so they talk about their concern that if their daughter is going to college, will she go to a state where she will have access to the health care she might need including reproductive health,” Harris said, noting that America’s women are living in a “state of fear,” that they may not be able to access abortion.
“So many of us actually grew up when Roe was intact, and we would absolutely say, ‘We must protect it. A woman’s right to choose but we kind of believed it was always going to be there.’ And look what happened,” she said. “And I say that in the context of this democracy also. Don’t take anything for granted.”
However, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision in June 2022 made clear that there is no such thing as a right to abortion (the intentional killing of human beings in the womb) in the U.S. Constitution. As Live Action News previously reported, many legal scholars believe the right to life for all humans, including those in the womb, is already embedded within the 14th Amendment: “At the time the 14th amendment was enacted, virtually every state understood that the legal phrase ‘person’ included prenatal life, and viewed abortion as child murder. Typical objections to the inclusion of preborn children are often due to misunderstandings of the verbiage used in the amendment.”
