The Left Is Upset With Biden Over Abortion
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Joe Biden made it clear in his State of the Union address that he supports abortion.
He even rebuked Supreme Court Justices during his speech for overturning Roe v Wade.
This still isn’t enough for some on the left. Some left-wing activists and elected officials are upset over the cases he is highlighting.
Joe Biden is highlighting on the campaign trail stories of women struggling to access reproductive health care. But he’s only telling certain kinds of stories.
The State of the Union last week was the latest example of how the president is most comfortable lifting up women who have not been able to receive fertility care, contraception and abortions in cases of rape, incest and medical emergencies to demonstrate the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. He appears less willing — to the chagrin of some abortion-rights advocates — to talk about women who have struggled to terminate unwanted pregnancies for other reasons.
That has left activists and elected officials dismayed by what they see as a harmful divide between “good” and “bad” abortions that threatens to undermine a core tenet of the abortion-rights movement: that the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be between a patient and their doctor.
“The president is part and parcel of the culture of stigma and shame that surrounds abortion care,” said Dr. Jamila Perritt, president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health. “Privileging certain stories allows us to ‘other’ people.”
Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow with the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, called what Biden is doing a craven political ploy.
“I think it’s really a craven political ploy. He is trying to reach sort of what he considers to be the low hanging fruit of individuals who might be more moderate Republicans or independents who haven’t aligned with the traditional Democratic perspective of abortion on demand up until birth,” Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow with the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
