By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.
President Joe Biden on Friday vowed to use his veto power to protect women's rights if Republicans win control of Congress in next month's midterm elections and pass laws to outlaw abortion nationwide.
Biden, asked in an interview with MSNBC what he would do to protect women's rights should Republicans gain control of the legislature, said: "Veto anything they do." The Democratic president this week sought to mobilize his left-leaning base by promising to sign a law to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats triumph in next month's elections.
Biden's Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate too, in the November vote.
The president is trying to rally the party and its supporters around abortion rights, which were sharply curtailed by the Supreme Court's decision nearly four months ago to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade ruling.
If Democrats elect more senators and keep control of the House, Biden said he would sign a law in January to ensure women's right to abortion across the country.
Democrats, who largely support abortion rights, currently have a slim majority in the House and control the 50-50 Senate through Vice President Kamala Harris' ability to cast tie-breaking votes.
Republicans largely oppose abortion rights.
In order to outlaw abortion, Republicans would have to pass legislation, but it would not become the law of the land unless Biden signed it. "The president has to sign it.
I'll veto it," he said.
The Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that recognized women's constitutional right to abortion in June, drawing condemnation from Biden and spurring optimism among Democrats that outrage over the decision would drive voters to the polls in November.
But high inflation has remained at the top of voters' minds, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, and just 8% of Americans cited the end of national abortion rights as the issue that will most influence how they vote in November, compared with 27% who cited inflation in a poll conducted Sept. 27 to Oct. 3. (Reporting by Andrea ShalalEditing by Chris Reese and Rosalba O'Brien) President Biden was asked why he stated he wants to have 53 Democratic Senators after the Midterms.
The reporter asked if he was referring to Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema, from Arizona, and Joe Manchin, from West Virginia.
Although they are both technically in the Democratic Party, they act as Moderates and will sometimes vote with the Republican Party. "What does Mike Pence think of this?" the Fox News host asked.
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Supreme Court could get back to finding "common ground," saying it risked looking political by continuing to overturn legal precedents.
Speaking at an event at the University of Pennsylvania, Kagan did not explicitly reference the Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v.
Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
But Kagan, who dissented from that decision powered by the court's conservative majority, argued that judges and justices should be "humble" and respect past precedents interpreting laws and rights that people build their lives around.
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