This is what the second Catholic president of the United States had to say about the Texas decision to restrict abortion in the state.
“Rather than use its supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought, the highest court of our land will allow millions of women in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities,” said President Biden, 78.
He promised a “whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision . . . to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions”. He denounced the “bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties” in Texas and said his administration would “protect and defend” Roe v Wade, the 1973 decision of the Supreme Court that enabled the current abortion laws to be enacted.
