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Direct Headline: Abortion has long been complicated for Biden, now he leads the fight
Joe Biden became a senator in 1973, just 17 days before the Supreme Court decided the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. Soon after, the young senator, a practicing Catholic, told an interviewer that he disagreed with the decision and that he had views on such matters that made him “about as liberal as your grandmother.”...“I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far,” he concluded in 1974. “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
(CONTRAST)
“The idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child, based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think, goes way overboard,” Biden said on Tuesday (5/3/22) in reaction to a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion proposing to overturn Roe v. Wade.“It concerns me a great deal that we’re going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have a right to choose,”....
“For Joe Biden, his gap from the institutional leadership of the church in this country and also in the Vatican is widening,” said Massimo Faggioli, a Villanova University theology professor and author of “Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States.”.... “Because politically, he has to defend Roe v. Wade, to legislate on it probably. That will expose him to even more accusations that he’s a heretic, he’s not a Catholic, and that all Catholics who voted for him are heretics.”...
by Matt Viser The Washington Post May 4, 2022
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-05-03/abortion-biden-fight-5887314.html
Direct Headline: When Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade
The amendment — which the National Abortion Rights Action League called “the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights” — cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 1982. Support came not only from Republicans but from a 39-year-old, second-term Democrat: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
But some of Mr. Biden’s more moderate-to-conservative stances in his legislative record are raising questions in the party about whether he could win over an ascendant liberal wing eager to impose purity tests around issues of race and gender in 2020.....Even before announcing a candidacy, Mr. Biden has started trying to rebut those concerns, telling party officials in Delaware this month that he has “the most progressive record” of anyone running for president....
Mr. Biden is already facing criticism from some women’s rights activists over his aggressive questioning of Anita Hill during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Clarence Thomas in 1991. Mr. Biden’s comment Tuesday that he wished he “could have done something” to give Ms. Hill’s claims of sexual harassment a more respectful hearing drew fierce backlash from critics, who pointed out that Mr. Biden was chairman of the Senate committee that questioned Ms. Hill. Some women’s rights leaders say Mr. Biden must offer a stronger and more personal apology to Ms. Hill, as well as clarify his views on a broad range of issues including sexual assault, harassment and Republicans’ efforts to limit abortion access.
1) In 1981, he crafted the Biden amendment to ban the use of foreign aid for biomedical research related to abortion.
2) He repeatedly voted for the so-called Hyde amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion, including through Medicaid.....
3) In 1984, Mr. Biden supported an amendment praising the Reagan administration’s “Mexico City policy,” which banned federal funding for organizations around the world that provide abortion counseling or referrals.....
4) When Republicans began introducing legislation in the 1990s that would outlaw a rare abortion procedure they termed “partial-birth abortion,” Mr. Biden emerged as a reliable ally. He voted for the ban, and then against efforts by President Clinton to veto the legislation in 1996 and 1998.....
5) In 2003, he backed a third ban that included no exception for the health of the mother, sponsored by Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania. That law moved through the courts for several years before being upheld by the Supreme Court in April 2007....
By Lisa Lerer March 29, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html
Direct Headline: Joe Biden’s Anti-Abortion Past (and Present) Is Haunting His Candidacy
The former vice president’s continued support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding except in extreme cases, is only the beginning...Back in 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to a constituent who had contacted his office with a request. “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” he said. Biden assured the man he understood, promising that any position he would take on abortion in the U.S. Senate would be guided by his conviction that those who oppose abortion should not be compelled to pay for them. That was 25 years ago, but Biden’s campaign indicated that he continues to hold the position today, confirming that the former vice president — unlike the majority of his rivals for the 2020 nomination — does not support repealing the Hyde Amendment, despite a recent remark to the contrary.
In ’94 Biden boasted to have voted against federal funding for abortion “on no fewer than 50 occasions;” among those was a vote in 1977 against allowing Medicaid to pay for abortions for victims of rape and incest. When that bill succeeded anyway, Biden voted to remove the exceptions again in a separate bill, passed in 1981, that NBC calls “the most far-reaching ban on federal funds ever enacted by Congress.” That same year, Biden supported the constitutional amendment empowering states to overturn Roe. Two years later, in 1983, Biden opposed allowing insurers to cover all abortions for federal employees, except if the mother’s life was at-risk....
The most surprising revelation in the NBC News report, though, was the news that Biden continues, to this day, to support the Hyde Amendment — a ban on federal funding for abortion except in the cases of rape, incest or if the mother’s life is threatened. It is particularly significant considering the former vice president publicly took the opposite position just last month. “Yes,” Biden replied on May 4th when asked directly by a volunteer with the ACLU whether he would commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment while in Columbia, South Carolina. “Right now it has to be,” he said. “It can’t stay.”
“There’s no political or ideological excuse for Joe Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment, which translates into discrimination against poor women and women of color plain and simple,” Ilyse Hogue, president of pro-choice group NARAL, said in a statement. “His position further endangers women and families already facing enormous hurdles and creates two classes of rights for people in this country, which is inherently undemocratic.”....
By Tessa Stuart June 5, 2019 4:52PM ET
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-anti-abortion-past-present-president-candidate-842314/
Direct Headline: Meet The Democrats Who Voted For DOMA Back When It Was Popular
DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act), which forbids the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex relationships defined by the states, has been a thorn in the side of the gay rights movement since its passage in 1996...As a result of DOMA, people engaged in same-sex marriages receive none of the financial and institutional benefits that the federal government gives to straight married couples, including favorable taxation, various protections, estate tax and gift treatment as well as a host of other goods and services. ...The thing is, DOMA wouldn't even be on the books if it weren't for the votes of several (now rather embarassed) Democrats.
Still, here are some notable Democrats who voted for DOMA in 1994, with their current position listed:
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y)
Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-who-voted-for-doma-2013-3
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- Biden says, “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
- Biden voted to let states over turn Roe V Wade
- Biden was a long standing voter for the Hyde Amendment, banning federal funds for abortion
- Biden supported Reagan's Mexico City Policy, which bans federal funding to be used overseas for the purpose of aiding abortion
- Biden voted to ban partial birth abortions
- Biden voted for and supported an abortion ban that removed exceptions based on the health/safety of the mother
- Biden voted for the Defense Of Marriage Act ( which is essentially voting against same sex marriages)
- Media outlets have investigated and dug up where Biden lied in correspondence to his own constituents in his district, later in his political career, saying their tax dollars would not be used to support abortion, but yet again, he lied and lied and lied when it was politically expedient to do so.
- Biden is on record voting against using federal funding for abortion over 50+ times while in the Senate.
- Biden voted against Medicaid using it's funding to pay for abortions for victims of rape and incest
- Biden voted against and opposed insurers covering the basic expenses of abortions for federal employees
- Biden talks about the rights and dignity of women but doesn't address allowing Anita Hill to be used like a human speed bump during Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings. This also doesn't deal with the multiple accusations of him touching women when they aren't receptive and the egregious and public hair sniffing.
- Biden refuses to address the issue that his support of the Hyde Amendment for decades, has been accused of disproportionately creating harm for women in poverty and minority women, against the backdrop that he wrote the 94 Crime Bill, which disproportionately targeted Black America for incarceration while proudly shouting out that he would never want his own children near "those racial jungles" while opposing busing.
- Biden is on record saying that life "begins at conception" then later says something entire different in that he doesn't agree that life begins at conception, once it became politically expedient to do so.
All this is on record and will be dragged into the national daily media cycle before the Mid Terms and before the 2024 general cycle if Biden even lasts that long.
It's beyond mind boggling that there are radical leftists here in the PSF and out in the big bad world who want to demonize Conservatives and Republicans and the GOP for having no regard for the rights of women and their right to choose, when it's very clear Joe Biden is quite possibly the most sterling example of an elected official with no regard for the rights of women ( Think about all the 11 and 12 year old little brown girls getting gang raped and sodomized in Afghanistan and at the Southern Border right now because of Biden's idiotic policy decisions) and their right to choose.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
Joe Biden became a senator in 1973, just 17 days before the Supreme Court decided the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. Soon after, the young senator, a practicing Catholic, told an interviewer that he disagreed with the decision and that he had views on such matters that made him “about as liberal as your grandmother.”...“I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far,” he concluded in 1974. “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
(CONTRAST)
“The idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child, based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think, goes way overboard,” Biden said on Tuesday (5/3/22) in reaction to a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion proposing to overturn Roe v. Wade.“It concerns me a great deal that we’re going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have a right to choose,”....
“For Joe Biden, his gap from the institutional leadership of the church in this country and also in the Vatican is widening,” said Massimo Faggioli, a Villanova University theology professor and author of “Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States.”.... “Because politically, he has to defend Roe v. Wade, to legislate on it probably. That will expose him to even more accusations that he’s a heretic, he’s not a Catholic, and that all Catholics who voted for him are heretics.”...
by Matt Viser The Washington Post May 4, 2022
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-05-03/abortion-biden-fight-5887314.html
Direct Headline: When Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade
The amendment — which the National Abortion Rights Action League called “the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights” — cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 1982. Support came not only from Republicans but from a 39-year-old, second-term Democrat: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
But some of Mr. Biden’s more moderate-to-conservative stances in his legislative record are raising questions in the party about whether he could win over an ascendant liberal wing eager to impose purity tests around issues of race and gender in 2020.....Even before announcing a candidacy, Mr. Biden has started trying to rebut those concerns, telling party officials in Delaware this month that he has “the most progressive record” of anyone running for president....
Mr. Biden is already facing criticism from some women’s rights activists over his aggressive questioning of Anita Hill during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Clarence Thomas in 1991. Mr. Biden’s comment Tuesday that he wished he “could have done something” to give Ms. Hill’s claims of sexual harassment a more respectful hearing drew fierce backlash from critics, who pointed out that Mr. Biden was chairman of the Senate committee that questioned Ms. Hill. Some women’s rights leaders say Mr. Biden must offer a stronger and more personal apology to Ms. Hill, as well as clarify his views on a broad range of issues including sexual assault, harassment and Republicans’ efforts to limit abortion access.
1) In 1981, he crafted the Biden amendment to ban the use of foreign aid for biomedical research related to abortion.
2) He repeatedly voted for the so-called Hyde amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion, including through Medicaid.....
3) In 1984, Mr. Biden supported an amendment praising the Reagan administration’s “Mexico City policy,” which banned federal funding for organizations around the world that provide abortion counseling or referrals.....
4) When Republicans began introducing legislation in the 1990s that would outlaw a rare abortion procedure they termed “partial-birth abortion,” Mr. Biden emerged as a reliable ally. He voted for the ban, and then against efforts by President Clinton to veto the legislation in 1996 and 1998.....
5) In 2003, he backed a third ban that included no exception for the health of the mother, sponsored by Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania. That law moved through the courts for several years before being upheld by the Supreme Court in April 2007....
By Lisa Lerer March 29, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html
Direct Headline: Joe Biden’s Anti-Abortion Past (and Present) Is Haunting His Candidacy
The former vice president’s continued support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding except in extreme cases, is only the beginning...Back in 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to a constituent who had contacted his office with a request. “Please don’t force me to pay for abortions against my conscience,” he said. Biden assured the man he understood, promising that any position he would take on abortion in the U.S. Senate would be guided by his conviction that those who oppose abortion should not be compelled to pay for them. That was 25 years ago, but Biden’s campaign indicated that he continues to hold the position today, confirming that the former vice president — unlike the majority of his rivals for the 2020 nomination — does not support repealing the Hyde Amendment, despite a recent remark to the contrary.
In ’94 Biden boasted to have voted against federal funding for abortion “on no fewer than 50 occasions;” among those was a vote in 1977 against allowing Medicaid to pay for abortions for victims of rape and incest. When that bill succeeded anyway, Biden voted to remove the exceptions again in a separate bill, passed in 1981, that NBC calls “the most far-reaching ban on federal funds ever enacted by Congress.” That same year, Biden supported the constitutional amendment empowering states to overturn Roe. Two years later, in 1983, Biden opposed allowing insurers to cover all abortions for federal employees, except if the mother’s life was at-risk....
The most surprising revelation in the NBC News report, though, was the news that Biden continues, to this day, to support the Hyde Amendment — a ban on federal funding for abortion except in the cases of rape, incest or if the mother’s life is threatened. It is particularly significant considering the former vice president publicly took the opposite position just last month. “Yes,” Biden replied on May 4th when asked directly by a volunteer with the ACLU whether he would commit to abolishing the Hyde Amendment while in Columbia, South Carolina. “Right now it has to be,” he said. “It can’t stay.”
“There’s no political or ideological excuse for Joe Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment, which translates into discrimination against poor women and women of color plain and simple,” Ilyse Hogue, president of pro-choice group NARAL, said in a statement. “His position further endangers women and families already facing enormous hurdles and creates two classes of rights for people in this country, which is inherently undemocratic.”....
By Tessa Stuart June 5, 2019 4:52PM ET
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/joe-biden-anti-abortion-past-present-president-candidate-842314/
Direct Headline: Meet The Democrats Who Voted For DOMA Back When It Was Popular
DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act), which forbids the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex relationships defined by the states, has been a thorn in the side of the gay rights movement since its passage in 1996...As a result of DOMA, people engaged in same-sex marriages receive none of the financial and institutional benefits that the federal government gives to straight married couples, including favorable taxation, various protections, estate tax and gift treatment as well as a host of other goods and services. ...The thing is, DOMA wouldn't even be on the books if it weren't for the votes of several (now rather embarassed) Democrats.
Still, here are some notable Democrats who voted for DOMA in 1994, with their current position listed:
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y)
Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-who-voted-for-doma-2013-3
********
- Biden says, “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
- Biden voted to let states over turn Roe V Wade
- Biden was a long standing voter for the Hyde Amendment, banning federal funds for abortion
- Biden supported Reagan's Mexico City Policy, which bans federal funding to be used overseas for the purpose of aiding abortion
- Biden voted to ban partial birth abortions
- Biden voted for and supported an abortion ban that removed exceptions based on the health/safety of the mother
- Biden voted for the Defense Of Marriage Act ( which is essentially voting against same sex marriages)
- Media outlets have investigated and dug up where Biden lied in correspondence to his own constituents in his district, later in his political career, saying their tax dollars would not be used to support abortion, but yet again, he lied and lied and lied when it was politically expedient to do so.
- Biden is on record voting against using federal funding for abortion over 50+ times while in the Senate.
- Biden voted against Medicaid using it's funding to pay for abortions for victims of rape and incest
- Biden voted against and opposed insurers covering the basic expenses of abortions for federal employees
- Biden talks about the rights and dignity of women but doesn't address allowing Anita Hill to be used like a human speed bump during Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings. This also doesn't deal with the multiple accusations of him touching women when they aren't receptive and the egregious and public hair sniffing.
- Biden refuses to address the issue that his support of the Hyde Amendment for decades, has been accused of disproportionately creating harm for women in poverty and minority women, against the backdrop that he wrote the 94 Crime Bill, which disproportionately targeted Black America for incarceration while proudly shouting out that he would never want his own children near "those racial jungles" while opposing busing.
- Biden is on record saying that life "begins at conception" then later says something entire different in that he doesn't agree that life begins at conception, once it became politically expedient to do so.
All this is on record and will be dragged into the national daily media cycle before the Mid Terms and before the 2024 general cycle if Biden even lasts that long.
It's beyond mind boggling that there are radical leftists here in the PSF and out in the big bad world who want to demonize Conservatives and Republicans and the GOP for having no regard for the rights of women and their right to choose, when it's very clear Joe Biden is quite possibly the most sterling example of an elected official with no regard for the rights of women ( Think about all the 11 and 12 year old little brown girls getting gang raped and sodomized in Afghanistan and at the Southern Border right now because of Biden's idiotic policy decisions) and their right to choose.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
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