Mothering Justice Executive Director Danielle Atkinson<\/a> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe demand that the U.S. Supreme Court scrap Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s draft, go back to the drawing board, and issue a decision that protects our health, rights, and bodily autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atkinson continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no greater invasion than when a government takes charge of our bodies \u2014 controlling the most private decision of all, the decision about when and if to have children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs mamas of color, such interference isn\u2019t new, as our families and communities are denied the resources to raise our children safely. We will continue to fight for reproductive justice until the law respects our right to control our own bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schumer\u2019s call for a vote to codify the abortion law most certainly will face a blockade because it needs 60 votes in an evenly divided Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vermont Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders already has called for an end to the filibuster to ensure Senators could effectively stop abolishing Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Congress can\u2019t get it done, the Supreme Court decision would allow states to decide their policy on abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Joe Biden said his administration strongly argued in defense of Roe v. Wade. However, he noted that the leaked draft isn\u2019t official and doesn\u2019t yet reflect the court\u2019s final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve said that Roe is based on a long line of precedent recognizing \u2018the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s concept of personal liberty\u2019\u2026 against government interference with intensely personal decisions.\u2019\u201d Biden stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI believe that a woman\u2019s right to choose is fundamental, Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president noted that shortly after the enactment of Texas law S.B. 8 and other laws restricting women\u2019s reproductive rights, he directed his Gender Policy Council and the White House Counsel\u2019s Office to prepare options for an administration response to the continued attack on abortion and reproductive rights, under a variety of possible outcomes in the cases pending before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe will be ready when any ruling is issued,\u201d Biden declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf the court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation\u2019s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman\u2019s right to choose,\u201d he decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November. At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice Senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Schumer proclaimed that the upcoming mid-term elections will have severe consequences \u201cbecause the rights of a hundred million women are now on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo help fight this court\u2019s awful decision, I urge every American to make their voices heard this week and this year,\u201d Schumer remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI urge Americans to call their members, to write their members, to email their members, to text their members, and most of all to cast their ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He concluded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMake no mistake: the blame for this decision falls squarely on Republican Senators and the Senate Republicans as a whole, who spent years pushing extremist judges, spent years confirming three far-right justices to the Supreme Court, but who claimed somehow this day would never come. But this day has come, and we will fight it all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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