President Joe Biden said Tuesday at a Democratic National Committee event that the only way to counter “extremist” abortion laws was to vote for more Democratic senators. The leftist rhetoric on abortion on the cusp of November’s elections has reached a fevered pitch. This ignores the fact that in all states where abortion is restricted after the high court’s Dobbs decision, those laws contain an exception for the life of the mother. In fact, a recent interim final rule published by the Department of Veterans Affairs staked its legality on just that premise, arguing that the lives and health of VA beneficiaries were at stake if the department was unable to write federal law unilaterally so as to provide abortion access. To hear the party in power tell it, Americans are at an inflection point, where women’s … er, pregnant people’s lives are on the line if they don’t have unfettered access to abortion. 8 midterm elections.Īnd with control of both chambers of Congress up for grabs, how big of an issue will abortion be for voters? Wade), the nation has inched closer to the Nov. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (overturning the court’s earlier creation of a fictitious “constitutional” right to abortion in Roe v. Supreme Court issued what many consider its most significant decision in five decades, Dobbs v.
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