Biden: Still not enough votes to codify abortion rights
Source: AP
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that Democrats still lack the power to codify abortion rights into law despite his party’s stronger-than-expected performance in the midterm elections.
“I don’t think there’s enough votes,” he said at a press conference during the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia.
Biden’s blunt comments reflected how Democrats’ euphoria over their strength in the midterms will soon collide with the likely reality of divided government in Washington.
During the campaign, Biden said that if Democrats picked up seats, the first piece of legislation that he would send to Congress would be to enact a nationwide right to abortion.
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it is more than likely that any law that Congress passes on abortion (both for or against) will fall before the Supreme Court for the same reasons that the USSC overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Court stated in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization:
"the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives".
The only power that could lock in a woman's right to an abortion would be a Constitutional Amendment and there are not enough states ("...three fourths of the several states..."
to meet the Article V amendment ratification requirement.
