Biden’s Statement on the Failed Abortion Bill Never Uses the Word ‘Abortion’
In fact, Biden has used the word only once since becoming president.
Leah Millis/Reuters
After the Women’s Health Protection Act, a Democrat-led bill that would in essence codify a national right to abortion, failed its Senate vote today, Joe Biden had a lot to say—well, kind of. The president released a statement condemning Senate Republicans, all of whom voted against the bill along with Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, in which one word was notably absent: abortion. Biden referred to “reproductive health care,” “women’s constitutional rights,” the “right to choose,” and women’s “personal decisions about their own bodies,” but nowhere did the a-word appear. In fact, Biden only recently used the apparently dirty word for the very first time since taking office.
The word “abortion” appears nowhere in President Biden’s statement on the Women’s Health Protection Act. pic.twitter.com/3v1YUdUviC
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) May 11, 2022
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