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I know it’s frustrating and it made a lot of people very angry. We need two additional pro-choice senators and a pro-choice House to codify Roe as federal law. Only the way - the only way to fulfill and restore that right for women in this country is by voting, by exercising the power at the ballot box.
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On the day the Dobbs decision came down, I immediately announced what I would do.īut I also made it clear, based on the reasoning of the Court, there is no constitutional right to choose. It was an exercise in raw political power. So, what we’re witnessing wasn’t a constitutional judgment. As the justices wrote in their dissent, and I quote, “The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them.” End of quote. It was about a deep, long-seething antipathy towards Roe and the broader right to privacy. That wasn’t about the Constitution or the law. And here’s the quote: “Neither law nor facts nor attitudes have provided any new reason to reach a different result than Roe and Casey did.” And that’s has changed - excuse me - and “All that has changed is this Court.” End of quote. The dissenting opinion says it as clear as you can possibly say it. The practice of medicine should not - emphasize - should not be frozen in the 19th century. This is the horrific reality that Roe sought to end. And the Dobbs majority ignores that many laws were enacted to protect women at the time when they were dying from unsafe abortions. Even 150 years ago, the common law and many state laws did not criminalize abortion early in pregnancy, which is very similar to the viability line drawn by Roe.īut the Dobbs majority ignores that fact. The truth is today’s Supreme Court majority that is playing fast and loose with the facts. The majority rattles off laws from the 19th century to support the idea that Roe was historic- was a historical anomaly because states outlawed abortion in the 1880s, toward the end. You’ve all probably had a chance to the read the decision and the dissent. And despite what those justices in the majority said, this was not a decision driven by history.
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Let me say it again: This was not a decision driven by the Constitution. This was not a decision driven by the Constitution. Let’s be clear about something from the very start. In both formalized actions I announced right after the decision, as well as adding new measures today. Now, with the Vice President, Secretary Becerra, and Deputy Attorney General Monaco, I want to talk about an executive order I’m signing to protect reproductive rights of women in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s terrible, extreme, and, I think, so totally wrongheaded decision to overturn Roe v. But I am suggesting we’re making progress.
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I’m not suggesting - there’s a lot more work to do. Gas prices, still way too high, have fallen now 25 days in a row, and this week we saw the second-largest single-day decrease in gas prices in a decade. Private sector jobs are at a record high. The unemployment rate is near a historic low of 3.6 percent. Families are facing a cost-of-living crunch.īut today’s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. At a time when our critics said the economy was too weak or having already added more jobs in my - we had already added more jobs my first year as President of any president in history, we still added more jobs in the past three months than any administration in nearly 40 years. In the second quarter of this year, we created more jobs than any quarter under any of my predecessors in nearly 40 years before the pandemic. We have more Americans working today in the private sector than any day under my predecessor, more today than any time in American history - today. Here’s why it’s important: Our private sector has now have recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic and added jobs on top of that. Today, the Labor Department reported that we added 372,000 jobs last month - 372,000. Before I speak to the Supreme Court extreme decision overturning Roe, I want to comment on one piece of good news - economic good news today.