White House And Democrats Try To Preserve Abortion Rights.

May 5, 2022 Glen Turpening

America was stunned by the leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe V. Wade, and the White House and Democrats in general are scrambling.

In the hours after a leaked Supreme Court document signaled the court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, President Biden vowed to fight to protect access to abortion. “We will be ready when any ruling is issued,” Biden said in a statement Tuesday. But in marathon meetings and phone calls among White House officials, government lawyers, outside advisers and federal agency officials, a sobering reality settled in: There’s little the White House can do that will fundamentally alter a post-Roe landscape. While officials have spent months planning for the possibility the court would overturn the landmark ruling, the leaked document caught the White House off guard. Officials are discussing whether funding, whether through Medicaid or another mechanism, could be made available to women to travel to other states for an abortion, according to outside advisers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions, but many doubt whether that is feasible.

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Tyler Pager, writing for 'The Washington Post'

Abortion rights have once again taken center stage after the Supreme Court’s draft opinion leaked indicating the Court was poised to overturn Roe V. Wade. Most Americans did not think it was possible for this right to be taken away but have been showered with a cold dose of reality by what may thought could never happen. Elections have consequences and in this case the right to abortion could be ripped away from Americans living in half the nation.