If the Supreme Court overturns the landmark 1973 precedent Roe v. Wade, which enshrined abortion access as a constitutional right, a “mini-revolution” will unfold in November’s mid-term elections, President Joe Biden predicted on Thursday during an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.
Noting that he doesn’t think the United States will stand for it, Biden called the potential overturning of the court precedent “ridiculous”, noting it would motivate turnout in November’s elections.
He believes that if the decision comes down the way it does and the states impose the announced limitations, it’ll going to cause a mini-revolution that will make the people vote the Republicans out of office.
President Biden said on Thursday that he’s looking at potential executive orders that he may pass if the precedent is overturned, but he gave no details on what those could be, pushing at the same time the voters to help Congress codify abortion rights into law by turning out during the midterms.
Though Democrats tried to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law this spring, they failed after facing roadblocks in the evenly divided Senate.
“You gotta vote to let people know exactly what the devil you think,” Biden said.
The Supreme Court’s draft opinion leaked by Politico previously in April ignited fears that the right to abortion will soon be terminated in many Republican-led states across the nation by showing that the court’s conservative majority is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, almost half of all 50 US states are poised to ban or restrict abortion access in some way. That would take away women’s rights to an abortion at a federal level, reversing a half-century of precedent and the abortion will be outlawed in huge swaths of the nation.
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