If you listened to Joe Biden’s unhinged speech Friday concerning the Supreme Court’s overthrowing Roe v. Wade, you’d think he was an angry, bitter old man who had spent his life entire fighting for the abortion cause. He called the decision the product of “extreme ideology,” and blamed Trump and the three justices he appointed for this “sad day for the Court and for the country.”
Now you might be wondering who that guy said it.
We cannot overstate how far Biden went on the issue of abortion
Biden said that even in 2006, “I don’t view abortion as an option and a right. I believe it is always a tragedy.”pic.twitter.com/cGKIhiTmcz https://t.co/pTfERnEWig
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) June 24, 2022
The man in the tweet doesn’t look like today’s Joe Biden, doesn’t sound like today’s Joe Biden, and certainly doesn’t have the same opinions as today’s Joe Biden.
“I do not view abortion as a choice or a right,” he says in the 2006 video. “I think it’s always a tragedy. And I think it should be rare and safe, and I think we should be focusing on how to limit the numbers of abortions, and we oughta be able to have a common ground and consensus to do that.”
This sounds quite reasonable. It sounds reasonable.
I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental, RoeIt has been the law for nearly fifty years. Basic fairness and stability demand it be maintained.
Like many other positions, HIs views have changed over the years so they are not easily identifiable. A 2021 New York Times story:
Mr. Biden entered the Senate in 1973 as a 30-year-old practicing Catholic who soon concluded that the Supreme Court went “too far” on abortion rights in the Roe case. He told an interviewer the following year that a woman shouldn’t have the “sole right to say what should happen to her body.” By the time he left the vice president’s mansion in early 2017, he was a 74-year-old who argued a far different view: that government doesn’t have “a right to tell other people that women, they can’t control their body,” as he put it in 2012.
Biden declined interview requests for Times articles, however, a Times spokesperson said that Biden was a supporter. Roe decision who mounted a fierce opposition to Robert H. Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987. Bork Hearings are one of most controversial partisan affairs of Senate history and lead to the verbal fight that Supreme Court Hearings often descend into. That can be attributed to Sen. Edward Kennedy, and Vice President Biden.
In 2019, Biden ran for the Democratic presidential nomination and faced criticism for his support of the Hyde Amendment, which banned federal funding for abortions. Biden, being a man based on principle, quickly changed his mind and became an abortion advocate.
I call President Biden on his inability to support the Hyde Amendment and save the lives of unborn babies!
— Bryan Steil (@RepBryanSteil) January 28, 2021
Biden is no stranger to flip-flopping—in fact he looks like a stranded catfish on the issue of crime, where he changes positions depending on which way the wind is blowing. He was hard on crime in 1994 and 1986, but now whines about the effects of the very laws he championed, as if it’s all someone else’s fault. He’s for defunding the police, then he’s against defunding the police — who knows.
As RedState’s Sister Toldjah writes, Biden’s been “showing Americans who he really is – a feckless leader who is entirely beholden to extreme special interest groups on the far left who would turn this country into something oppressive and unrecognizable if left to their own devices.”
What’s clear is that Biden’s principles change depending on the political moment. For now, he’s decided to go full Lefty and be friends with the Progressive crowd. His positions could change again if they shift.
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