White House press secretary Jen Psaki Jen PsakiBiden to reprise 'consoler in chief' role with Louisiana trip Louisiana delegation asks for additional relief funding after Ida Will Hollywood abandon Texas over abortion law? MORE on Thursday responded to a male reporter who pressed her on President Biden Joe Biden Former ISIS member pleads guilty to kidnappings, deaths of Americans Defense & National Security — The mental scars of Afghanistan Bidens visit wounded service members at Walter Reed MORE’s support for abortion by saying the reporter has “never faced those choices.”
Psaki said Biden "believes that it is a woman’s right, it is a woman’s body and it is her choice,” in response to a reporter from EWTN, a Catholic network, who asked why Biden supports abortion when the Catholic Church opposes abortion.
When the male reporter asked who Biden believes should look out for the unborn child, Psaki replied: “He believes that it is up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor.”
Psaki tells a male reporter who asked why Biden supports abortion: "He believes that it's up to a woman to make those decisions, and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor. I know you've never faced those choices, nor have you ever been pregnant." pic.twitter.com/x7SCcvtTID — CBS News (@CBSNews) September 2, 2021
“I know you’ve never faced those choices, nor have you ever been pregnant," she continued, "but for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an incredibly difficult thing. The president believes their rights should be respected."
Biden is a practicing Catholic and regularly attends Mass on the weekends. While his views on abortion are at odds with the teachings of the church, they are in line with the majority of Catholic voters who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to polling.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops advanced a controversial document that could pave the way for bishops to rebuke Catholic politicians like Biden who receive Communion despite supporting abortion rights.
Psaki fielded numerous questions on Thursday about the White House’s response to the Supreme Court ruling declining to block a Texas law that bans most abortions.In a statement on the ruling, Biden said he is instructing White House officials to examine how the departments of Health and Human Services and Justice can work to protect abortion access for women in Texas. He also called the 5-4 decision an “unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights.”“For the majority to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below, and without due consideration of the issues, insults the rule of law and the rights of all Americans to seek redress from our courts,” Biden said.
PlebsnProles on September 3rd, 2021 at 00:34 UTC »
People who’d be more concerned about a fetus inside my uterus than me as a woman can fuck off.
A-Wise-Cobbler on September 2nd, 2021 at 21:14 UTC »
Republicans: Unborn babies have rights!
Also Republicans: Once the baby is born it does not have a right to vote, a right to health care, a right to education, a right to housing, a right to food, a right to water, a right to be alive … oops was that last part out loud?
Piano18 on September 2nd, 2021 at 20:54 UTC »
Pro-life conservatives: Agree with forced pregnancies. But no daycare, no neonatal care, no school lunches, no maternity leave.
Georgie Carlin: “Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”