The President later Tuesday morning told reporters that if the final opinion is issued along the lines of the draft it would be a "radical decision" that would throw into question "a whole range of rights."
President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade and said a woman's right to have an abortion is "fundamental," but said he wasn't ready to call for an end to the filibuster to push for abortion rights legislation.
"Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned," Biden said in a statement after Politico published a draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade.
The President later Tuesday morning told reporters that if the final opinion is issued along the lines of the draft it would be a "radical decision" that would throw into question "a whole range of rights."
"The idea that we're letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions, would be a fundamental shift in what we've done," Biden told reporters before boarding Air Force One.
He continued, "So it goes far beyond, in my view ... the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose. It goes to other basic rights -- the right to marriage, the right to determine a whole range of things."
"It's a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence," Biden said.
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