President Biden expected to announce that a bill to codify abortion rights will be “the first bill he will send to the next Congress” if Democrats hold both the House and Senate, a Democratic official says.
Biden is expected to say in a speech at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington that if Democrats hold both the House and add seats to their Senate majority, a bill to codify Roe will be “the first bill he will send to the next Congress,” and that he would sign it into law by the 50th anniversary of the Roe decision in January, the official said.
The president, who has largely focused on economic issues at recent public events, is turning his attention to abortion rights three weeks before the midterm elections, which could see Republicans retake control of Congress. Jean-Pierre noted that the president discussed the efforts of what she called “extreme Republicans” to restrict abortion access during his visit to Western states last week, including a bill from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham to ban abortion nationwide after the 15th week of pregnancy and an effort to enforce a Civil War-era law implementing a near-total abortion ban in.
In a meeting at the White House this month marking 100 days since the overturning of Roe, Biden said he will not “sit by and let Republicans throughout the country enact extreme policies” related to reproductive health care.
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