President Biden’s reelection campaign is preparing to highlight abortion rights in the lead-up to the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, CBS News has learned, seeking to tie the upcoming election to a “woman’s right to make her own health care decisions — including the very possible reality of a MAGA Republican-led national abortion ban.”
The extensive plans include ad buys, campaign rallies and events across the U.S. organized in lockstep with the Democratic National Committee, which will launch opinion pieces in local newspapers focusing on statewide abortion bans.
Ahead of the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision on Jan. 22, television and digital ads highlighting the personal impact of abortion restrictions will air in swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to a Biden-Harris campaign official.
Most recently? The supermajority in 2009. The DNC is not your friend. Neolibs are not your friend. They’re simply the least shit option at the moment.
Obamas? that he had for like a month? That he used to try to get ACA passed? Because that’s the ONLY one people ever bring up and it’s a facile argument.
If you don’t think they couldn’t have gotten Roe enshrined in law during that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. This is absolutely the type of legislation you have written up in advance for day one to immediately force it through if you have any sort of conscious or morality.
72 days. A new congress. A new president. And a MOMENTUS policy change? You’re rewriting history. Especially in 2009 when it was much less supported as a law BECAUSE of Roe V Wade. You’re just looking for reasons to hate the democrats and this tactic of going back to the short supermajority is sad and transparent.
That was also 15 years ago. Anything before then never would have flown.
Definitely. Think about it: people believed that Roe v. Wade was settled law. The Supreme Court said it was. Why would they waste valuable time making that a law?
Laws take months unless there’s a national emergency, and then all other work is stopped. Literally hundreds of people need to write, read, and decide on the specific wording of the text. It’s like writing a book by committee, for no reason, at the expense of other issues. Abortion doesn’t matter if people don’t have healthcare!
You do know that these things can be done in advance, right? All the reading and the writing and the planning. You know, like how abortion bans almost instantly went in place as soon as roe v wade was overturned.
So as I was saying, I’ll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for the low sum of $50,000!
And trust me, I don’t have to look for reasons to hate the DNC. Them being slightly less shit than the GOP does not make them good. It makes them slightly less shit.
hmm.
the gop wants me dead and eradicated from public life.
the democratic party doesn’t. in fact, they want to improve healthcare, education, working conditions, and immigration.
you: both are bad
You might want to read what I actually said
i did. it’s still wrong.
you do realize that the time period in 2009 when they had about 6 weeks of a supermajority, they had several anti-choice dems who wouldn’t have voted to enshrine roe into law, right??
like literally i’m BEGGING you to take a high school civics class and learn how the legislative branch works.
so it’s not the democrat’s fault when they don’t do anything even when they literally can, and have been able to several distinct times?
They haven’t been able to do it. Going back to that short supermajority is drawing from a well giving dust. And when else could they have? When would they have had the public’s support before then? People love to make up history to fit their narrative. But it turns out America isn’t that progressive, unfortunately. Not until lately.
He literally gave you a time when they could have done it. Stop moving the goalposts. They could have but they didn’t.
It’s insane how you guys don’t seem to get that the democrats were dancing with joy when roe v wade was overturned because it meant they could campaign on it for the next election. I guarantee you they won’t make abortion legal nationwide if they win again, because then they lose a key election promise.
Still harping on one incidence that has been explained countless times. Why didn’t they move the world in the 2 months they had? I could give you reasons, and I have. But you’re just going to point at a short period of time while ignoring the politics.
“Name one time!!!”
names one time
“……name 2 times!!!”
So 15 years ago?
“When did they have the ability to???”
Tells them exactly when
“Oh and you expected them to do their job and what they promised to do in that time???”
Typical lefties.
Nah that’s not lefties, it’s centre-rights cosplaying as lefties. They’ll talk about how they want x y and z to change while actively doing everything they can to block any progress towards changing x y and z. The actual wording of the bill could have been written up years in advance and continuously updated. Basic bodily autonomy is certainly to the level of importance where that should have been the bare minimum. The only thing preventing them from pushing it through by end of day January 21, 2009 was it being far too big of a fearmongering token and donation driver.
It’s what currently known as lefties, even if you think they’re centre right.
Americans treat politics like a sport. They only care about winning. They don’t care how, or if winning actually accomplishes anything other than making the other team lose. They just want to win. Abortion is a topic they know helps them win any time it comes up, so they want to hang onto that winning play for as long as possible, and taking it off the table does the opposite of that.
Boy do I have yet another bridge to sell you if you think the American DNC is even in the same zip code as left. They may very well like to call themselves that, but they’re very, very clearly centre-right neolibs. There’s a handful of voices within the party trying to change that, but they’ve made very little progress.
You’re not understanding. I’m not saying they’re classically “left”. I’m saying that they are what is called the left in the current day, even if they’re centre or centre right.
I could paint my dog like a tiger and call it such. Doesn’t make it a tiger