While Trump frets over the abortion issue, President Joe Biden has a clear message for America, as the former president defines it.
Biden said in a statement released during his presidential campaign:
Donald Trump made it clear once again today that he – more than anyone else in America – is the person responsible for ending Roe v. Wade. He is – more than anyone else in America – responsible for creating the cruelty and chaos that has engulfed America since the Dobbs decision.
Trump once said that women must be punished for seeking reproductive health care — and his wish was granted. Women are turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical care they need, and forced to travel hundreds of miles to get healthcare. In states like Florida, abortion will likely soon be illegal before many women know they are pregnant. Because of Donald Trump, one in three women in America are already living under extreme and dangerous bans that put their lives at risk and threaten to criminally prosecute doctors for doing their jobs. And the situation will only get worse. For all his empty talk about fertility treatments, Trump doesn’t tell you that the MAGA Republicans he controls in Congress have introduced bills that could ban fertility treatments and that the Speaker of the House he appoints is one of the most strong supporters of national abortion. ban in the nation. Let there be no illusions. If Donald Trump is elected and MAGA Republicans in Congress put a national abortion ban on the Resolute Desk, Trump will sign it into law.
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Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t understand: when he tore up Roe v. Wade, he stripped away a fundamental right for the women of America that the United States Supreme Court had affirmed and reaffirmed for 50 years. Being a fundamental right, it doesn’t matter where you live. It was granted to you as an American, not as a resident of any state. Generations of women have relied on this right. We now find ourselves in the extraordinary position where women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. This has never happened before in America. And it cannot be allowed to remain standing. I am determined to restore federal protection to Roe v. Wade. So it won’t matter where you live in America: the fundamental right to choose for women will once again be the law of the land. If you give me and Vice President Harris a Democratic convention, that’s exactly what we’ll do.
Trump is simply lying. There has been no groundswell of support in America for overturning Roe. Indeed, support for Roe is higher in America today than it has ever been. The truth is that Trump made a political deal in 2016. He promised to appoint a court that would get rid of Roe. And he had to repay that debt. So he did. It was never about public policy or what was right or what Trump believed. It was always about politics.
Trump admits as much in his statement today. After creating chaos by overturning Roe, he’s trying to say, “Oh, never mind.” Don’t punish me for this. I just want to win.’
Trump is struggling. He’s worried that since he’s responsible for overturning Roe, voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will. America was built on personal liberty and freedom. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that’s what Donald Trump did.
As I have said many times since the Dobbs decision, Donald Trump and all those responsible for overturning Roe have no idea about the power of women in America. But they’re about to find out.
Biden knows that the issue of reproductive freedom is one of the most important and will be at the forefront of the minds of millions of voters when they vote this fall. America cannot afford to have a presidential candidate who lacks the courage to do what the majority of the country wants. The vast majority of Americans want the government not to dictate what type of health care women can have.
Trump is embracing the right-wing extremist position on abortion while also trying to run away from it. Biden was ready for Trump’s pro-abortion turn, and will let the convicted fraudster deceive the majority of the population about their rights.
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