Biden calls U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling ‘a sad day for the court and for the country’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court docket ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade determination on abortion, saying the well being and lifetime of American ladies at the moment are in danger.
“It is a unhappy day for the courtroom and for the nation,” Biden mentioned in a White Home handle after the ruling, which he mentioned was taking the nation again 150 years.
Biden promised to go on preventing for reproductive rights however mentioned no govt order can assure a lady’s proper to decide on.
He urged voters to ship lawmakers to Congress who will work to codify abortion rights because the legislation of the land.
“This fall, Roe is on the poll. Private freedoms are on the poll,” Biden mentioned, referring to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade determination making abortion authorized nationally.
Biden made some extent of calling for any protests to stay peaceable. “No intimidation. Violence isn’t acceptable,” he mentioned.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Writing by Doina Chiacu; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis)
