First invoice Biden will ship Congress would codify Roe if Democrats maintain majorities

President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday that the primary invoice he would ship to Congress would codify Roe v. Wade and he would signal it into legislation on the fiftieth anniversary of landmark Supreme Court docket abortion determination — if Democrats retain their congressional majorities.

Biden made the remark in a brief however wide-ranging political stump speech at Howard Theater in Washington, D.C., however he has staked Democrats’ probabilities in November on the backlash in opposition to the Supreme Court docket’s reversal of Roe over the summer time within the Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group case.

“If we do this ... the primary invoice that I'll ship to the Congress will probably be to codify Roe v. Wade,” Biden mentioned of Democratic positive aspects in November.

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The Senate is at present cut up 50-50, beneath Democratic management solely due to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote. Republicans may regain the bulk with a web achieve of 1 seat.

Even on the present Democratic numbers, the get together can't break a Republican filibuster of federal abortion rights laws. The particular invoice Congress has voted on doesn't have the assist of all 50 Democrats or any pro-choice Republican senators as a result of it's broadly seen as nullifying state-level abortion restrictions and permitting post-viability abortions.

The Democrats’ Home majority isn’t a lot bigger and Republicans are closely favored to win that chamber in November. However the GOP’s Senate prospects are extra tenuous.

If the Democrats had been to achieve Senate seats in November, a tall feat, they might probably get rid of the filibuster and advance the laws.

The fiftieth anniverary of Roe would happen on Jan. 22.

Biden vowed to signal any such invoice into legislation. But when Republicans take management and enact nationwide abortion restrictions, he pledged talking in a whisper to “veto it.”

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Most polls present inflation and the economic system as the highest voters issues. However abortion is a serious motivator for Democrats and a consider races throughout the nation.