“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.”

  • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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

    • 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.