By EFE
08 Apr 2024, 12:43 PM EDT
The president of the United States and candidate for re-election, Joe Biden, accused his rival, former Republican president Donald Trump, on Monday of endangering the health of millions of women in the country after defending on his Social Truth platform that Each state must decide on the legality of abortion.
The Democratic leader thus responded to Trump, who issued a video message in which he ruled out promoting a national abortion ban if he wins the elections and defended that each of the country’s 50 states should decide its own legislation.
In a statement, Biden recalled that Trump is the most “responsible” for the fact that the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority and with three judges appointed by the Republican himself, overturned in 2022 the federal right to abortion, which had been in force since 1973, after which several Republican-controlled states began to prohibit the practice.
The president blamed his predecessor for “the cruelty and chaos that has engulfed the United States” since then.
“Because of Donald Trump, one in three women in the United States already lives under radical and dangerous bans that put their lives at risk and threaten doctors with prosecution for doing their job. And that is only going to get worse,” she stated.
Biden denounced that women who want to terminate their pregnancies are being rejected by clinics and are forced to go to court to request care or travel to other states where abortion is legal.
He added that in states like Florida abortion will soon be illegal after six weeks of gestation, “before many women even know they are pregnant.”
The president reiterated that he is determined to “restore federal protection” to abortion if he achieves his re-election and a Democratic majority in Congress after the elections next November.