Joe Biden has selected Donald Trump‘s influence on rolling back abortion rights in an attack on his presidential rival on the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The president lashed out at the presumptive Republican nominee for appointing three conservative justices to vacancies on the Supreme Court, which two years ago “snatched away” reproductive health rights.
Biden also highlighted how Trump “bragged” about the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which overturned the federal legal right to abortion.
“Donald Trump is the only person responsible for this nightmare,” Biden said in a statement from his re-election campaign team.
Monday marks two years since the seismic ruling, and the Biden campaign is using the anniversary to rally support for the Democratic Party ahead of the November vote. To that end, Vice President Kamala Harris is leading more than 50 events defending reproductive rights in battleground states.
Trump’s position is that reproductive rights should be left to the states. Over the weekend, Trump said his administration was doing “something great” with Dobbs when he spoke at an evangelical conference.
Biden’s statement read: “Two years ago today, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court majority took away the fundamental freedom for women to access the health care they need and deserve. The consequences have been devastating: In states across the country, Trump’s allies have passed extreme and dangerous abortion bans — many with no exceptions for rape or incest — that endanger women’s lives and threaten doctors with prison time.”
“Donald Trump is the only person responsible for this nightmare,” the statement continued. “For him, these cruel state bans are ‘beautiful to look at’ – and they have only just begun. This is a man who brags about overturning Roe v. Wade, has called for punishing women who access reproductive health care — and says he would rule as a dictator from day one. Given the chance, there is no doubt that he will ban abortion nationwide, with or without Congress’s help. You don’t have to take my word for it; his advisors have already drawn up the plans for this.’
The statement added: “I will never let that happen. Everywhere I go, I hear from people concerned about the state of reproductive health care in America. My message to Americans is this: Kamala and I are fighting hard to get your freedom back. And we will not stop until we restore Roe v. Wade’s protections to every woman in every state.”
