“It is unfathomable that women today wake up in a country with less rights than their ancestors had years ago,” Biden's deputy campaign manager said.

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“The president has been adamant that we need to restore Roe. It is unfathomable that women today wake up in a country with less rights than their ancestors had years ago,” Fulks said.

Biden has been poised to run on what has been described as the strongest abortion rights platform of any general election candidate as he and his allies look to notch a victory in the first presidential election since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

Last month, Biden seized on a case in Texas, where a woman, Kate Cox, was denied an abortion despite the risk to her life posed by her pregnancy.

“No woman should be forced to go to court or flee her home state just to receive the health care she needs,” Biden said of the case. “But that is exactly what happened in Texas thanks to Republican elected officials, and it is simply outrageous. This should never happen in America, period.”

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
      3216·
      11 months ago

      And several of those Senators in that supermajority were against abortion rights. I can name them if you actually care.

      Mate, I literally warned you against this. Two of those Senators were from god damned Arkansas, one from Indiana, and one from Louisiana. This was not the Democratic Party of the 2020s. Several of them voted for a federal ban on late-term abortions and bans for the use of any federal funding for abortions. Our good friend Joe Manchin was also in that majority.

      Please though, do try again. You seemed very confident that this pro-abortion majority definitely existed, so I’ll wait.

      • ApostleO@startrek.website
        217·
        11 months ago

        Two things.

        One: even removing those listed senators from the supermajority, that still leaves a majority.

        Two: their original comment lamented that the Democrats never even held a vote when they had control with the intent of putting their votes on the record, so that voters would know who actually supports their rights.

      • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
        1513·
        11 months ago

        Oooh!

        You’ve got more than feelings right? and can demonstrate some kind of political understanding (far beyond ours) on how the Dems will codify abortion?

        Cuz from what you’ve said so far you’ve only proved that the Dems can’t, even with a supermajority. (But not a real one lol)

        What’s unsaid by you is that Dems would need a supermajority in both houses and that those Dems would also have to be pro-abortion right? If you show me your worth we can talk about that next.

        Can you tell me, with your knowledge, how we’ll get there? how that will go? How Bidens promise to “make it his top priority” in a year will work? I don’t know much, but i feel like he should have started already. Can we focus on how i should believe him?

        I think that will be very hard. Because he can’t, or won’t. What i mean by “won’t” is “Won’t do enough to make it happen.” What they will do is have an excuse when they fail. An excuse just like yours.

        But you’re here to tell me this is different, right? Cuz to me it just seems like a cynical, open-ended promise to “try”, from a party specializing in “sorry, we tried”.

        I don’t understand why you’re so proud of this argument in that case, one that provides more ammunition for those who believe the Democrats will never codify abortion.

        Can you tell me why you’re making it?

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          114·
          11 months ago

          Because his argument has understanding of the situation, and isn’t a pithy tantrum.

          If you want abortion, you have to vote for it. There are primaries coming up. Go vote for every pro-choice Republican and Democrat you can find. Let me know if you elect 60 of them to the Senate and 218 to Congress. Then you’ll absolutely get your codified abortion rights.

          Or maybe your whining about Dems will fix the problem.

      • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
        914·
        11 months ago

        And several of those Senators in that supermajority were against abortion right

        Sounds like Democrats are shit bags too then and the whole “vote blue no matter who” won’t actually solve anything.

          • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
            59·
            11 months ago

            Why? Because expecting Democrats to serve the people who’s votes they depend on is to tall an order? How fucking pathetic is that?

              • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
                410·
                11 months ago

                I made it very clear who I preferred in the 2020 primaries and I would have happily voted for a number of others if they had made it to the general. Instead we got Joe Biden. The people who voted for him in the 2020 primaries can go fuck themselves. At the end of the day your opinion of me doesn’t matter. You want my vote but you can’t have it because you chose Joe fucking Biden in the 2020 primaries.

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                  76·
                  11 months ago

                  Third party voters are worse than Republican voters. Knock yourself out. And make sure you feel real good jerking it to how morally superior you are

                  • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
                    311·
                    11 months ago

                    I just said I’m not voting for Biden. I gave him a chance in the 2020 general election. He’s made it clear he won’t move to the left so he can go fuck himself along with everyone who voted for him in the 2020 primaries. I’m not claiming moral superiority. I’m just not propping up your garbage candidate. You want my vote? Should’ve made a better choice in the primaries. Simple as that.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
      1810·
      11 months ago

      Man if only there was some other piece of legislation they got passed during that 2 months… Maybe the largest healthcare overhaul in generations?

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        1710·
        11 months ago

        The one that said it was illegal to not buy health insurance? The “compromise” that turned it into a huge win for the insurance industry? And it still sounds like people are going bankrupt because of medical issues or having treatments blocked because some insurance asshole disagrees with their doctor.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          132·
          11 months ago

          Yes, the one that was neutered completely by republicans which was somehow Obama’s fault for doing something instead of nothing, the very thing being condemned in this thread

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            43·
            11 months ago

            Weren’t we talking about a period of time when the Dems controlled the presidency, house and senate?

            • Serinus@lemmy.world
              32·
              11 months ago

              “Controlled”. If having a monolithic voting bloc is your number one issue, then go vote Republican. By the way, they’re not any better at passing legislation, so don’t get your hopes up.

              • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
                22·
                11 months ago

                I have no vote in that race, just watching the dumpster fire from my own dumpster that itself is smoldering a bit.

        • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
          64·
          11 months ago

          Oh I remember, that’s the one that the Republicans literally created as RomneyCare

          Democrats, assisting fascists since the invention of liberalism

        • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
          86·
          11 months ago

          I love how the guy you’re responding to brought up the ACA, clearly unaware of all the sabotage the Democratic party did to it before they allowed the broken husk to pass. There were at least half a dozen Democrats involved, but don’t forget what really brings the joke home, the Dems even had a fall guy intransigent senator to blame with a D by his name!! The man single- handedly destroyed the public option. Gosh, they were so close to 60 votes too!!

          Fuck me, they accidentally provided the perfect example of how the Democrats “win” when they have power.

      • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
        137·
        11 months ago

        Fucking breadcrumbs. Banks and insurance companies benefited more from Obama’s presidency than the American people.