Biden Reaffirms Support for Abortion on Anniversary of ‘Roe v. Wade’ The statement was released one day after tens of thousands of pro-life advocates gathered in Washington for the annual March for Life.

 

Biden Reaffirms Support for Abortion on Anniversary of ‘Roe v. Wade’

The statement was released one day after tens of thousands of pro-life advocates gathered in Washington for the annual March for Life.

U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis Oct. 29, 2021 (photo: Daniel Ibanez/CNA / EWTN)

Christine Rousselle/CNANationJanuary 23, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pledged to defend a so-called right to abortion and reaffirmed his commitment to the widespread availability of the procedure in a Jan. 22 statement marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

“The constitutional right established in Roe v. Wade nearly 50 years ago today is under assault as never before,” reads the statement, which was co-signed by Vice President Kamala Harris. “It is a right we believe should be codified into law, and we pledge to defend it with every tool we possess.”

“We are deeply committed to protecting access to health care, including reproductive health care—and to ensuring that this country is not pushed backwards on women’s equality,” the statement continues. 

The statement was released one day after tens of thousands of pro-life advocates gathered in Washington for the annual March for Life. 

Biden and Harris condemned efforts by pro-life lawmakers to enact restrictions on abortion, saying that “in Texas, Mississippi, and many other states around the country, access to reproductive health care is under attack.” 

“These state restrictions constrain the freedom of all women,” they wrote, adding that such restrictions are “particularly devastating for those who have fewer options and fewer resources, such as those in underserved communities, including communities of color and many in rural areas.” 

In addition to support of codifying a right to an abortion throughout the entirety of a pregnancy, Biden and Harris wrote that they will “continue to work with Congress on the Women’s Health Protection Act.” 

The Women’s Health Protection Act would establish “a statutory right for health care professionals to provide abortion and the right for their patients to receive care, free from medically unnecessary restrictions that single out abortion care.” 

If passed, the bill would also eliminate requirements including mandatory waiting periods and ultrasounds before the procedure can be performed. 

Biden and Harris wrote that it is important to “ensure that our daughters and granddaughters have the same fundamental rights that their mothers and grandmothers fought for and won on this day, 49 years ago.” 

“At this pivotal moment, we recommit to strengthening access to critical reproductive health care, defending the constitutional right established by Roe, and protecting the freedom of all people to build their own future,” the statement reads. 

Biden is the second Catholic president and the first to be elected since Roe v. Wade. In an interview with The Washingtonian when Roe was issued, Biden said he was more moderate on many social issues, including abortion. 

“But when it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I‘m about as liberal as your grandmother,” Biden said at the time. “I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don't think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”

While in the Senate, Biden repeatedly voted for legislation that would prevent the taxpayer funding of abortion. However, his views on abortion began to shift over time. 

By his last year in the Senate prior to becoming vice president, Biden received a zero rating by the National Right to Life Committee. The last time Biden received a score above zero from the pro-life committee was in 2003-2004.

“There’s no surprise here,” said Mercedes Schlapp, former strategic communications director for the Trump administration, in a Jan. 21 interview with EWTN’s Owen Jensen. “We knew he was going to be radical on abortion. We knew he was going to support abortion— late term abortions. We know he’s obsessed and [the Democratic] party is obsessed with codifying Roe v. Wade.”

“As Catholics, we need to be vocal,” she continued. “We need to stand strong and we need to tell the president this is not right. We need to defend the unborn.”

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Our local diocesan newspaper published an excerpt from the Jesuit magazine America that reflected fully the order's mealy mouthed wishy washy approach to proper reception of the Eucharist. It then ran an article from CNS in the news section of the paper that carried on the same theme. Needless to say, a request for my contribution to the annual diocesan collection for this year will go straight to the circular file and my money will go directly to local Right to Life organizations. Since pleas based on common morality appear to have little effect, recourse to more crass actions seems to be the only remaining approach.

Jesus sees the plight of His people. He sees and hears us. He constantly reminds me that He is God and to always trust Him...all the faithful just need to pray. Pray for those who advocate for abortion that they might be saved. He came to redeem us. And He will come again to end evil on this world. We are going through the sifting, the separation of the weeds and the chaff. Pray for the redemption of those who still defy Him, as He did when He was here.

Can someone answer this for me. I recently read an article that stated that Catholic women make up over 50% of women having abortions.......Is this true?

Our nation is being led by a President and Vice President that are publicly campaigning for the legal taking of the most innocent of human life. This is barbaric in nature, as abortion is the foundation of the destruction of our secular society. Mother Teresa warned us, "We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other." Pray for our leadership, as their souls are in mortal danger.

How ironic & backwards!

President Donald Trump, who was at one time a notorious playboy who might have paid for abortions in his past life & whose conversion to Christianity has been considered suspect by many, became the best friend that the pro-life movement & the Catholic Church ever had in the White House, supported & gave an address at the MARCH FOR LIFE & appointed 3 pro-life Justices who will hopefully help overturn Roe v Wade.

Joe Biden, who calls himself "a devout Catholic" is probably our worst adversary of the pro-life movement (even worse than Barack Obama if that is possible) & is hell-bent on "protecting" & "defending" the wicked & unconstitutional Roe v Wade decision & the abortion industry. He apparently is brainwashed & clueless, prioritizing "political correctness" over the truths of our Catholic faith & Sacred Scripture.

Holy Spirit, please knock some sense into this man!

Note to Cardinal Gregory: All your private engagement and dialogue with Mr. Biden and allowing him to openly receive the Eucharist while supporting abortion has been to no avail, has borne no fruit. The most prominent Catholic in your diocese stands in utter rebellion and opposition to the Catholic Church and the Gospel of Life. For Mr. Biden's sake, a change in course in your pastoral counseling is required. For the sake of others who may muse about whether the Catholic Church means what she says about the sanctity of life, action is required on your part. When St. Paul learned that the Church in Corinth was accepting a member who was openly sleeping with his stepmother, Paul directed the Corinthians to expel that member, for the member's sake and his potential salvation. Cardinal Gregory, you are at a crossroads. You can take measures to protect the Church and to try to bring about a change in Mr. Biden on this issue, at the risk of costing you access and approbation of the rich and powerful. Or you can choose to remain on the unfruitful path you have meandered thus far. I pray that you will make the right choice, for Mr. Biden, for your flock, and for your own self. God bless.

I want to know where the Constitution says we have the right to kill anyone. Biden says abortion is a constitutional right.

But I suppose Joe remains "personally opposed" to abortion due to his faith. Don't hear much of that blather anymore. Sigh....

Joe Biden vehemently affirms he is anti-Catholic and anti-life.

It is odd that a President could imagine that the killing of innocent babies should be in the Constitution. I can understand that for political purposes a political party could promote and support a choice, when women find themselves in difficulties, a sort of blind eye back door, but to suggest a Constitutional law that promotes and legalizes the killing of babies, apart from being barbaric, belies a corrupt state of mind that begs the question as to what other immoralities could be considered.

It is absolutely time to deny him the Eucharist and kick him out of the Catholic Church! If he dies in a state of mortal sin he will not go to heaven and that is the absolute truth. maybe denying him the Eucharist might get him back on track.

Elizabeth, once a Catholic, always a Catholic. One cannot get ‘kicked out of the Church.’ However, excommunication (which is not being kicked out, but is rather a sanction on somebody who belongs but who is doing objective wrong actions of objective mortal sin, such as this rejection of the Church on abortion by Mr. Biden) is a possibility.

Please remember that this sanction which involves the person being unable to receive the sacraments until the person has repented, gone to confession, been absolved, and returned back to full communion with the Church and acceptance of Her teachings, is meant not as an explusion or shunning but as a corrective medication to show the person how serious his sins are and to thus encourage repentance. Sometimes people have to hit bottom before they will change.

Again, Mr. Biden’s actions are those of a Catholic who is disobedient to the Church he is and will always be a member of, and who through the last resort of excommunication if administered we hope will be ‘scared straight’ so that he repents and once again is obedient.

The justices of the Supreme Court in 1973 added a "right" to the Constitution that isn't there. They overextended their authority. The right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ARE in the Constitution, and the first must be honored for the other two to be exercised. There is no "right" to abortion, because it is wrong.

Tragically, it appears that we have Baal/Moloch worshipers in our nation's White House. We read in the Old Testament about this pagan deity that demanded infant sacrifices. You can read about Molochism in https://allthatsinteresting.com/moloch

Pope Francis should demand Biden's Bishop to excommunicate him publicly and refuse him communion.Then again, the Holy Father allegedly said Joe Biden is a "good" Catholic and should keep receiving Holy Communion.Some want to rush to the defense of Pope Francis and say that he never said that, that Joe Biden was speaking for himself. But the Vatican's official response was neither to confirm nor deny, only that they had a private conversation. And undoubtedly hearing the stink that this encounter raised across the United States (and I'd imagine it reverberated throughout the entire Catholic world), the Holy Father deigned to make no clarification to what should have amounted to falsehood and calumny (indirectly). So where does that leave us? Either the Holy Father actually said it, and he doesn't care what everyone things. Or he didn't say it and doesn't care what everyone thinks. Either way, the Holy Father is in desperate need of prayer. As is Joe Biden.

Pope Francis apparently called Joe Biden a “good Catholic”. Maybe they are both suffering from dementia because no pope should be calling a pro abortion fake Catholic a good Catholic good Catholics do not support abortion until birth: they do not support abortion for any reason!

As far as Em and I are concerned, Biden is a murderer of the Unborn. I say this because he claims to be a devout catholic. The definition of "devout" is: "Totally Committed To A Cause Or Belief". Well, he is totally committed to abortion on demand!

Have you noticed that they want to make sure that the minorities and the poor communities have access to abortion it looks to me like that these are two kinds of people they want to eradicate.

"and to ensuring that this country is not pushed backwards on women’s equality,” What is equal about women having the ability to murder their own children without consequences?

The "equality" is that they can recuse themselves from responsibility when they get pregnant, just as a man can recuse himself from responsibility. Neither male nor female are, therefore, responsible for conceiving a child. The child is murdered to alleviate the responsibility of both parties.

Roe v Wade & the radical feminists who support abortion have it all wrong! As a pro-life Catholic Christian feminist I believe that the correct response to the double standard & inequality should be to hold men to the same high standard that society used to hold women. The solution of allowing women to be as promiscuous & irresponsible as men are allowed to be is totally wrong. It is time for both men & women to be called to be chaste & to take responsibility for their actions.

And to seek equality must also include equal rights for the unborn baby to be born, to live, & to be cherished, nurtured & properly raised.

Our Declaration of Independence states that the first inalienable right by which our Creator has granted to all human beings (the term "men" was used generically) is the right to life.

We must guarantee the equal right to life to men, women & children from the moment of conception.

I think Jesus Christ understood very well the language of "politics." Abortion is a language of euphemism and legalism that speaks to power and money. The power structure in this country cares very little for the rights of women and minorities. There are elections to be won and that requires some deals to be made. The political life and experience of Joe Biden is all too representative of this fact. This sort of evil is timeless-there is nothing new here. My only concern is that the institutional Church is willing to coexist with it. We have a recent history of men who obviously have had an agenda at odds with the mission of Jesus Christ. And we must call this evil out for what it is.

The Hyde Amendment has protected babies "of color." It has been the foremost protector of our black population, whose percentage of our total population has systematically dropped since the passage of Roe v Wade. Sure, other factors, including the growth of our Hispanic population, have contributed to the drop, but the availability of abortion paid for by Medicaid in many states has been a major factor in that drop.

For that reason alone, I cannot comprehend the opposition of many organizations who say that they are speaking for blacks, such as the NAACP and too many others, to the overturn of Roe. The availability of abortion contributes to the abandonment of their children by too many black men.

I don’t understand why an organization that’s called national Association for the advancement of colored people (obviously it’s just an organization to help the black community) Would support the butchering of little black babies in the womb! How does that help them? Abortion is racist since it disproportionately affects the black community by killing those who don’t even get a chance to be born yet!

It is not a question of political acceptance but that of Catholic teachings. A devout Catholic president or member of a governing body should not favour abortion at any stage in pregnancy. Then, whatever I was taught about the sanctity of life and all the years I went to religious school, from kindergarten through graduate school - three years in a Lutheran school and the rest in Catholic places of learnin; medical school was non sectarian - should be discarded or accepted as false church teachings. Will this also app;ly to euthanasia? Our lives are only on loan and we should not be able to decide when to end life even when an individual is terminal; at least not for now.

"Including communities of color." So they acknowledge that they are encouraging eugenics.

I am not Catholic but know many Catholics or former Catholics who have expressed dismay and frustration at the lack of a more visible sanctioning (e.g., withholding of communion) of Catholics who support and promote abortion, particularly Catholics who are in position s of power and influence in society.

Bishops, please. Isn't it time to come down on pro-abortion politicians who declare themselves Catholic, commit public sin and scandal as to continue to defend abortion and do absolutely nothing to alleviate the murder of children and then with an in your face attitude come up to receive holy communion? Show us a unifying force that gives us faith in the Church and in particular, the bishops themselves and defend children AND the Eucharist at the same time. Please.