The polls predict a victory for the opposition over the two legislative chambers in the November elections
Was it necessary to wait three weeks before the elections to announce it? Supossely Yes. Almost 6 months after it became known that the Supreme Court was going to repeal the ruling that guaranteed the right to abortion throughout the country, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has promised that if his party wins the legislative elections on 8 November, the first law that it approves will be to codify a right that until now depended on a Supreme Court ruling.
The message is clear and Biden has no problem saying it with all the letters: “You have to go out and vote. You know what is at stake.” Women do not like that their reproductive rights are the currency in these elections, but that is the reality. Since the Supreme Court’s decision came into effect, 16 states in the country have vetoed abortion, in one way or another, which already affects 26.5 million women of reproductive age. In the United States today, it is the case that pregnant women in critical condition arrive at the emergency room without the doctors daring to attend to them, for fear of being accused of procuring an abortion. Patients who have been taking certain drugs for arthritis or osteoporosis for years are being denied because pharmacies fear they might be used to end a pregnancy, and that’s just the beginning.
Some Republican Senate candidates are promising that if their party wins control of the Houses, they will right the federal chaos unleashed by overturning a nearly half-century-old ruling with what may be a greater evil: a national abortion ban. “It is not enough for pregnant women to have to travel to another state in the country to end an unwanted pregnancy, or even lethal to their health, but now they want them to have to get a passport to go to Canada,” the president bellowed. .
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Biden hasn’t done much on the campaign trail because he knows his popularity ratings are so low that his presence could hurt candidates more than help them. What he does do is use the power of the executive branch to remind progressive voters who stands in their interests. The announcement of the cancellation of student debt, which on its first day alone has received more than 8 million applications, is considered another ruse to favor Democratic candidates in these mid-term elections.
All forecasts indicate, however, that Biden will not be able to keep the promise he made. The polls predict a victory for the opposition over the two legislative chambers, which would be a tragedy for the president. In itself, the meager majority that the Democratic Party has held over the Upper House, Solomonically distributed in the elections two years ago, and biased in favor of the Democrats with the tiebreaker vote exercised by the vice president, has left it very little Room for maneuver.
The spokeswoman for Congress, Nancy Pelosi, faced those who accuse her of not having tried to legislate abortion in the last four months. “Do you really think we would have gotten the vote of ten Republicans? Come on!” she settled.
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