{"id":2004545,"date":"2023-08-18T05:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-latest-trip-to-pennsylvania-shows-fading-of-anti-abortion-democrats\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T05:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T09:56:49","slug":"bidens-latest-trip-to-pennsylvania-shows-fading-of-anti-abortion-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-latest-trip-to-pennsylvania-shows-fading-of-anti-abortion-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s recent Pennsylvania visit reveals waning support among anti-abortion Democrats."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fbidens-latest-trip-to-pennsylvania-shows-fading-of-anti-abortion-democrats%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=2004545&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--><h2>President\u2062 Joe Biden Pays\u200c Respects to\u200c Former First Lady\u2063 Ellen Casey in Scranton<\/h2>\n<p>President\u2064 Joe Biden traveled to Scranton, Pennsylvania, on\u200c Thursday \u2062to pay respects to and visit\u2062 with the\u2062 family of the state&#8217;s former first lady \u2062Ellen Casey.<\/p>\n<p>Casey was\u2062 married to former Gov. Bob Casey\u200c Sr. until \u200bhis death in 2000, and\u2062 their son, Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA), currently serves as \u200dthe junior senator from the state.<\/p>\n<h3>A Legacy of Devotion and Contrasting Views<\/h3>\n<p>The Casey men, both Democrats, were devout Catholics.\u2064 Like Biden himself for much of his political career, he often voted\u200b against the \u2064party on abortion rights. The\u200d president&#8217;s\u2064 trip\u2063 comes as \u2062Democrats eye abortion as a critical\u200d issue heading into the 2024 election, one \u200bthat could likely lock up Biden&#8217;s reelection \u2062effort even in the face of a stagnating economy.<\/p>\n<p>The president told reporters Thursday that \u200bhe \u200dcame to pay respects\u200b to \u2064Ellen Casey, \u2063who\u2064 died last week, for the &#8220;enormous role&#8221; she held \u200din his\u2063 life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;She loved with a fierceness and \u2063a tenderness that was incredible. And\u2062 it was the Irish of her. She\u2064 just\u2062 was incredible,&#8221; Biden stated. &#8220;And I was saying \u2062earlier \u200dthat \u2014 my sister and I were talking about her. And my sister reminded me of\u2062 a quote about \u2064Michelangelo. It said: He \u200dsaw the angel in\u200c the marble and carved until he\u200b set it free.\u2063 That\u2019s what she did with\u200c everybody. \u200bI mean,\u200d she really \u200cdid, if you knew her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was\u2062 an incredible woman, and she\u2062 raised \u200dan enormously \u2063successful \u200dand \u200cdecent family,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;All the values I learned, I learned them here in Scranton, and she was an embodiment of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. \u2062Casey was \u200bjust one of two Senate Democrats not to sponsor the Women&#8217;s\u200c Health Protection Act,\u2064 a 2022 bill codifying Roe \u200bv. Wade, though he later voted for its passage on the floor. Like \u2062his father, Casey has billed\u2064 himself as an anti-abortion\u2064 Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>His father \u2062was even\u200d more strongly \u2062opposed to\u2064 abortion.\u2062 He defended Pennsylvania&#8217;s abortion\u2064 laws in a \u200bchallenge\u200d to Roe\u200d v. Wade in 1992&#8217;s Planned \u2062Parenthood \u2063v. Casey. Roe was upheld\u2062 that year in a\u200c 5-4 \u2062vote, but some of Pennsylvania&#8217;s abortion\u2062 restrictions were allowed to remain in\u200d force.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has\u2062 backed\u200b abortion rights in\u2062 the fallout from\u2064 Dobbs v.\u2063 Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, 2022&#8217;s Supreme Court decision striking down Roe 30 \u200dyears after Casey, but\u2064 the president, who has said he personally disapproves of abortion but supports a\u2062 woman&#8217;s right to choose the \u2063procedure, often flip-flopped on the issue during his tenure in\u2063 the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman in the Senate, Biden \u2064was initially critical of the Roe ruling.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t like the\u2064 Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far,&#8221; he said in 1974. &#8220;I \u200ddon\u2019t think that a woman has the \u200csole right to say what should happen to her body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In\u2064 1982, Biden was\u200b the\u2064 sole Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote \u200bto advance an\u2064 amendment that \u2063would revert abortion policy back to the\u200c states.<\/p>\n<p>Though Biden softened his stance on the issue in the late 1980s,\u200d he\u2062 also\u200c supported three\u2062 additional attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-state-ags-threatening-legal-action-over-biden-administrations-expansion-of-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\" title=\"Republican State AGs Threatening Legal Action Over Biden Administration\u2019s Expansion Of Taxpayer-Funded Abortion\">ban partial-birth abortion<\/a>\u200d before exiting\u2064 the Senate to\u200c become vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u200bBiden has been arguably the strongest \u200badvocate for abortion access in response to a string of red state bans, certainly more than\u2062 any\u200c Republican he might face in the general election, and there is growing evidence to support Democrats&#8217; notion that \u200cthe\u200d issue could be a top one\u200b for voters in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, to some surprise, managed to \u2062hold on to their Senate majority and minimize projected losses in\u200d the \u200bHouse in the 2022 midterm elections, thanks in \u2064large part to high turnout in response to\u200d the Dobbs\u2062 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio voters recently \u200cvoted down a proposal to amend the state\u2064 constitution \u200bthat would make \u2062it harder to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-latest-trip-to-pennsylvania-shows-fading-of-anti-abortion-democrats\/\" title=\"Biden's recent Pennsylvania visit reveals waning support among anti-abortion Democrats.\">roll back bans put<\/a> in\u200d place \u200bin recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u200d are currently mobilizing around an \u200deffort in Arizona, a\u2062 critical \u2064swing state, to \u200dput the Arizona Abortion Access Act on the 2024 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>And the White House\u2064 has repeatedly seized \u2063on Sen. Tommy Tubberville&#8217;s \u2062(R-AL)\u2062 ongoing hold of \u2063Department of\u2063 Defense nominations in opposition to the Pentagon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wicker-backs-gop-on-abortion-but-hopes-pentagon-funding-debates-stay-away-from-social-issues\/\" title=\"Wicker supports GOP on abortion, urges Pentagon funding debates to avoid social matters.\">abortion \u200cpolicy<\/a>, indicating the Biden team believes\u200b the issue\u200d will motivate voters\u200d even\u2062 in deep\u2063 red\u200d states.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s about freedom. It\u2019s not just \u200dabout choice,&#8221; \u2064Biden \u2064said\u200d of abortion access at a Democratic fundraiser\u2064 in \u2064early \u2064August. \u201cIt\u2019s\u2063 not\u2063 just about choice. Roe was a \u2062balance, and it was there for over\u2063 \u2014 almost 50 years. \u2062But now, mark my words,\u2062 they&#8217;re going \u2064after gay rights, LGBTQ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more\u2064 from \u200bThe Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden visited Scranton, Pennsylvania, to honor and meet with the family of former first lady Ellen Casey. Ellen was married to late Gov. Bob Casey Sr., and their son, Bob Casey Jr., is the current junior senator from the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004545","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}