Three weeks from the mid-term elections, on November 8, the president of the country tried to re-mobilize the Americans around the right to abortion.
Le Monde with AFP
Joe Biden promised, Tuesday, October 18, that the first law at the Congress Agenda of the United States, in the event of a democratic victory in the mid-term elections, would guarantee the right to abortion. “And if the congress adopts it, I will sign it in January,” continued the American president, by committing if not to put his “veto” in the event that the Republicans won the November 8 election and would banish the right to abortion at the federal level.
Three weeks before mid-term elections, Joe Biden tries to re-mobilize the Americans around the right to abortion. Despite the growing dissatisfaction with inflation and the risk of recession which undermines the chances of such success for his party, the Democratic President is focusing on the indignation triggered by the flip-flop of the Supreme Court in matters of abortion To fill up on the voices on the left and in the center.
On June 24, the High Court returned to the said “Roe vs Wade” judgment which, since 1973, granted the Americans the right to abort throughout the country.
“Remember what you felt that day (…), anger, concern, disbelief,” said Joe Biden during a speech to the Democratic Party in Washington, denouncing “Chaos” having followed this decision. “In four months, laws prohibiting an abortion has entered into force in sixteen states,” he continued, and “the Republican elected officials of the Congress have added” by promising to adopt such a prohibition at the federal level S ‘ They took control of the congress after the November 8 elections.
“If such a law should be adopted in the years to come, I will put my veto there,” thundered the tenant of the White House. According to him, the best way to “stop these extremist laws” would nevertheless be to adopt a law at the federal level “to engrave in the marble Roe vs Wade once and for all”. “For the moment, we are missing a few voices,” he admitted by calling on voters to send more elected democrats to the Senate and the House of Representatives. “If you do, I promise you that the first law that I will send to Congress will aim to codify Roe,” he said. “And as soon as the Congress has adopted it, I will sign it, in January.”
the economy, priority of the Americans
A bill in this sense has already been adopted by the Democratic majority of the House of Representatives. The text skates in the Senate, where it would take a majority qualified by 60 % to adopt it due to the filibuster, procedural mechanism.
Joe Biden has long replied to changing this rule supposed to encourage the compromise between the two major parties. At the end of June, he said he was ready to make an “exception” and to lift it to guarantee the right of the Americans to abort, but two of the fifty democratic senators do not want to touch on the fivquer. Since the upper room has a hundred elected officials, the Democrats would have to win two new seats to change the situation, while retaining their majority in the lower room.
The objective seems very ambitious, especially since the mid-term elections are generally an opportunity to sanction the president’s party. The Democrats were however galvanized by a referendum organized at the beginning of August in the very conservative State of Kansas, where the voters mobilized massively to reject a constitutional amendment hostile to abortion.
Endings show, however, that abortion is no longer the priority of Americans. About 26 % of those questioned cite the economy as their main concern; 18 %, inflation; Abortion is only for 5 % of them, according to a survey published this week by the Siena University Research Institute with the New York Times.