Biden Paints Life Saving, Pro-Life Laws As ‘Extreme’

President Joe Biden painted life-saving laws limiting abortion as “excessive” throughout his State of the Union remarks on Tuesday.

“Congress should restore the best the Supreme Courtroom took away final 12 months and codify Roe v. Wade to guard each girl’s constitutional proper to decide on,” Biden mentioned. “The vice chairman and I are doing the whole lot we will to guard entry to reproductive well being care and safeguard affected person privateness.”

“However already, greater than a dozen states are imposing excessive abortion bans,” he added. “Make no mistake; if Congress passes a nationwide abortion ban, I’ll veto it.”

The president’s reference to “excessive abortion bans” bans refers to legal guidelines that defend unborn infants from being killed. Virtually 70% of People assist limiting abortions to the primary three months of a being pregnant, based on a January 2023 survey by the Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll.

About 14 states have handed close to complete bans on aborting unborn infants, according to the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and 6 extra states have handed close to complete abortion bans depending on authorized motion. One state (Florida) bans abortions after 15 weeks. Twenty-six states have few or no legal guidelines limiting abortion.

Evaluation by the Charlotte Lozier Institute shows that the overwhelming majority of European nations limit abortions to fifteen weeks gestation — making the US legal guidelines permitting late time period abortions a few of the most excessive on this planet.

“No European nation permits elective abortion via all 9 months of being pregnant, as is successfully permitted in a number of U.S. states, and America is one of only a small handful of nations, along with China and North Korea, to permit any sort of late-term elective abortion,” mentioned Lozier Institute affiliate scholar Angelina B. Nguyen, J.D.

The states with sturdy pro-life legal guidelines on the books allow well timed medical remedies for miscarriage, ectopic being pregnant, and different medical procedures wanted to save lots of the lifetime of a pregnant girl, opposite to the claims of many excessive profile Democrats.

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