Biden Vows Abortion Fight, Assails 'Extreme' Court Ruling - 9 & 10 News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, attended a recent virtual meeting with abortion providers and said she expects "a true health crisis." "I think that we should have been preparing for far longer than we have been," McNicholas said.
46% : Biden added that "the court has done what it's never done before -- expressly taking away a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many Americans." Republicans and conservative leaders celebrated the culmination of a decades-long campaign to undo the nationwide legalization of abortion that began with Roe v. Wade in 1973.
46% : Garrett Bess, with Heritage Action for America, a lobbying arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, said his organization would be working in states to continue efforts to limit abortion.
44% : The overturning of Roe v. Wade was not unexpected -- a draft of the decision leaked nearly two months ago -- but it still reverberated throughout Washington in what has suddenly become a new era in the country's battle over abortion.
42% : Although nationwide legislation ensuring access to abortion appears out of reach, more Democratic victories at the state level could limit Republican efforts to ban the practice.
38% : Noting that Republican-controlled states now had a clear path to ban abortion even in cases of incest or rape, he said "it just stuns me."
37% : Many Republican-controlled states are poised to severely restrict abortion, or even ban it outright.
35% : And he warned that other legal precedents ensuring same sex marriage and access to birth control could also be at risk.
34% : President Joe Biden said Friday he would try to preserve access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and he called on Americans to elect more Democrats who would safeguard rights upended by the court's decision.
25% : Although Biden has previously expressed conflicted feelings about abortion, he delivered a forceful defense on Friday.

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