President Biden launched an all-out assault on former President Donald Trump on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, dubbing his GOP rival “the sole person responsible” for state abortion restrictions.
Mr. Biden on Monday took the unusual step of posting a video in which he reads Mr. Trump’s boasts on social media about his ability to kill the 1973 Roe decision after “50 years of failure.”
“Decades of progress shattered just because the last guy got four years in the White House,” Mr. Biden says to the camera.
Democrats were outraged by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion and opened the door to state-by-state restrictions. But they are happy to use the issue as a weapon against Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and down-ballot Republicans.
Red states have imposed a patchwork of abortion limits, either banning it outright or after a specific number of weeks into pregnancy. The decision to overturn Roe was made possible by the three right-leaning justices that Mr. Trump appointed.
“The consequences have been devastating: In states across the country, Trump’s allies have enacted extreme and dangerous abortion bans — many with no exception for rape or incest — that are putting women’s lives at risk and threatening doctors with jail time,” Mr. Biden said in a statement from his campaign. “Donald Trump is the sole person responsible for this nightmare.”
