The High Winds

I may be a day late to the conversation, but I had to finish my bloviating about consciousness. But Thursday night, President Joe Biden gave the State of the Union address, and thanked Vice President Kamala Harris “for being an incredible leader defending reproductive freedom and so much more.” 

Taking the issue of abortion and the reversal of Roe v. Wade head on, Biden condemned “state laws banning the freedom to choose, criminalizing doctors, forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states to get the treatment they need,” and he called out Republicans “promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom.”

In June 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe, the justices wrote: “Women are not without electoral or political power.” 

With those same justices sitting right in front of him in the House chamber, Biden quoted the Court's own words when he said, “You’re about to realize just how much you were right about that.” 

“Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women. But they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2023. And we’ll win again in 2024.” 

Biden promises to restore the right to choose if Americans elect a Congress that supports women's right to bodily autonomy.