{"id":1594380,"date":"2022-08-08T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594380"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:55:16","slug":"time-to-take-risks-activists-push-biden-to-take-harder-pro-abortion-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-to-take-risks-activists-push-biden-to-take-harder-pro-abortion-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time To Take Risks\u2019: Activists Push Biden To Take Harder Pro-Abortion Stance"},"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%2Ftime-to-take-risks-activists-push-biden-to-take-harder-pro-abortion-stance%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=1594380&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-08T142726Z_1597241039_RC2DSV9I47UU_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN-e1659971403264.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Pro-abortion activists think President Joe Biden is the wrong leader for their cause given his Catholic faith and long history of opposing abortion, according to The New York Times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden opposed abortion throughout most of his political career and is hesitant to discuss abortion explicitly, White House sources<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/biden-abortion-catholic-history.html\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> the NYT. He changed his public stance on the issue over the past decade and became more pro-abortion, but activists feel he\u2019s soft on the issue and not doing enough to promote abortion rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYes, there are limits to executive branch power, there are limits to what the president can do,\u201d Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, told the NYT. \u201cBut this just feels like you\u2019ve got to push the boundaries right now. This is a time to pull out all the stops. This is a time to take risks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yesterday, following my Executive Order, HHS released new guidance to ensure health care providers across the country know their obligation under federal law to provide life- or health-saving abortion services in emergency situations\u2014regardless of their state\u2019s abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1546953796021993472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Biden issued two executive<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/08\/joe-biden-executive-order-abortion-reproductive-health-contraception\/\"><span>orders<\/span><\/a><span> enshrining abortion access, including through protecting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/joe-biden-executive-order-abortion-medicaid-cross-state-lines-hhs-becerra\/\"><span>interstate travel<\/span><\/a> for the procedure<span>, after Roe was overturned. His administration has promoted abortion through the Department of Justice\u2019s lawsuit against Idaho over the state\u2019s abortion law, and Biden<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/11\/biden-public-health-emergency-abortion\/\"><span>considered<\/span><\/a><span> declaring a public health emergency to promote abortion access. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/11\/abortion-activists-biden-white-house-out-of-step\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: <\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/11\/abortion-activists-biden-white-house-out-of-step\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abortion Activists Seethe After Biden WH Calls Them \u2018Out Of Step\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Some pro-abortion activists view these actions as insufficient and urge Biden to take stronger actions to promote abortion; they also wish Biden would discuss abortion explicitly rather than using euphemisms like \u201creproductive health care,\u201d according to the NYT. His history of opposition to abortion makes activists skeptical that he\u2019s really doing all he can to enshrine abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1974, the year after the Roe decision first came down, Biden<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/1974\/06\/01\/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> a reporter he felt that it went too far, and voted in favor of a failed constitutional amendment overturning Roe in 1983. He softened his ant-abortion stance by 2008, when he ran for vice president alongside then-candidate Barack Obama, and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/11\/26\/joe-biden-evolve-abortion-hyde-amendment\/\"><span>cemented<\/span><\/a><span> his public pro-abortion views during his own campaign for president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is not necessarily the guy that I am sure most activists wanted in the seat when this happened,\u201d Jamie L. Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, told the NYT in reference to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate because he has so much power and we need him to really get out of his comfort zone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-abortion activists think President Joe Biden is the wrong leader for their cause given his Catholic faith and long history of opposing abortion, according to The New York Times.\u00a0Biden opposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594380","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\/1594380","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594380\/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=1594380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}