President Joe Biden reacted to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in a speech to the nation on Friday afternoon.
“Today, the Supreme Court of the United States expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people that it had already recognized,” Biden said, per CBS News. “They didn’t limit it. They simply took away… this is not over.”
The 1973 opinion — which claimed that abortion is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution — was overturned through the court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. An unknown individual leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in early May.
Biden pinned the overturn of Roe on his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who reacted positively to the news earlier on Friday.
“It was three justices named by one president, Donald Trump, who were the core of today’s decision to upend the scales of justice and eliminate a fundamental right for women in this country,”…
