{"id":1464730,"date":"2022-05-05T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464730"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:30:00","slug":"psaki-refuses-to-say-whether-biden-would-accept-roe-decision-as-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-refuses-to-say-whether-biden-would-accept-roe-decision-as-legitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Refuses to Say Whether Biden Would Accept Roe Decision as \u201cLegitimate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-refuses-to-say-whether-biden-would-accept-roe-decision-as-legitimate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1395406228.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki avoided answering a direct question about the leaked early opinion draft that indicated the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn the landmark abortion case\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Even when asked specifically \u2014 twice \u2014 whether President Joe Biden would accept a decision <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/is-that-legit-biden-claims-lgbtq-students-could-be-banned-from-schools-if-court-flips-roe\/\">overturning\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em><\/a> as \u201clegitimate,\u201d Psaki redirected the conversation and did not provide an answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Jen Psaki refuses to explicitly answer say whether the Biden administration would accept a SCOTUS ruling striking down Roe v. Wade as &#8220;legitimate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also laments how abortions of Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics babies would plummet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KBGEPyT7kx\">pic.twitter.com\/KBGEPyT7kx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1521941926718717952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the Supreme Court does move to strike down\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em>, should Americans be prepared to just accept that decision as legitimate and would President Biden accept that decision as legitimate?\u201d one reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I can\u2019t speak for what actions could be possible on the legal front, I would point you to the Department of Justice on that,\u201d Psaki began. \u201cWhat I can tell you will happen is \u2014 and this is what we are preparing for the possibility of \u2014 that if\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em> were to fall, abortion would probably be illegal in about half the states in the country, up to 26 states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki went on to lament the number of states that had already <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/oklahoma-governor-signs-texas-style-abortion-ban-into-law\/\">passed abortion restrictions<\/a> \u2014 and the thirteen states that had implemented \u201ctrigger laws\u201d which would impose restrictions if the Court ruled to overturn\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of all of this, tens of million of women may lack access to reproductive health care services as soon as this summer if that were a decision to be made,\u201d Psaki continued. \u201cWhat we\u2019re really focused on is the impact this would have \u2014 it would dramatically reduce access to reproductive care particularly for women with low incomes, women of color, women in rural communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki complained that women in the affected states might not be able to afford the necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/subsidizing-the-abortion-industry-amazon-to-fund-abortion-tourism-for-its-employees\/\">travel costs<\/a> if they wanted to get an abortion but their state was among those that had imposed tighter restrictions or banned the procedure altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like you\u2019re saying then that\u2019s a yes, he would consider this a legitimate decision,\u201d the reporter pressed again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, there is not even a decision yet,\u201d Psaki pushed back. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the validity of the \u2014 we know that this is a leaked document, it is not the final opinion, so I just can\u2019t speak to that hypothetically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki avoided answering a direct question about the leaked early opinion draft that indicated the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn the landmark abortion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}