President Biden vowed during his State of the Union address Thursday night to make the right to abortion a federal law if more abortion supporters are elected to Congress in November and he makes it back to the White House.
“If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again,” Mr. Biden said. “America cannot go back. I am here tonight to show the way forward. Because I know how far we’ve come.”
He threw shade at former President Donald Trump, who has bragged about playing a part in the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the high court’s 1973 decision that gave a national right to abortion, in June 2022. Mr. Trump nominated three of the conservative justices who overturned Roe.
“Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women in America,” he said. “They found out though when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again in 2024.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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