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Asking President Biden whether he supports any restrictions on abortion is falling for a Republican “trap,” his re-election campaign has charged as the incumbent visits Florida for two campaign events Tuesday.
The 81-year-old Biden is America’s second-ever Roman Catholic president, but has repeatedly called on voters to elect a Democratic House and Senate that will codify the right to an abortion nationwide since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
That stance is a change from Biden’s opposition to Roe early in his decades-long tenure in federal office.
During a press call, a reporter pressed Biden campaign representatives “whether there’s a cut off for his support of abortion.
“Is it still fetal viability [typically 24 weeks]?” the reporter added.
“The president believes that we should restore the protections of Roe, he’s been pretty clear, pretty consistent in that,” a spokesperson responded.
“So we aren’t going to fall on any traps that Republicans may want to lay because that’s so far from reality.”
Biden has previously said he does support some limits on the controversial procedure.
In October of 2022, he was asked by a reporter if there should be “any restrictions on abortion at all.”
“Yes, there should be,” Biden said, before adding “Roe v. Wade, read it, man. You’ll get educated.”
Roe v. Wade overrode many state laws that had prohibited abortion, mandating that they could not ban the procedure before fetal viability. The ruling did allow states to begin imposing regulations in the second trimester and ban abortions completely in the third.
Since the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe, some states have reinstituted former laws that restrict the procedure.
Recently, Arizona’s Supreme Court restored an 1864 law that barred abortions with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
The Biden campaign has tried to make abortion a top issue, stressing that Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the court during his presidency.
Trump himself has crowed about his role in overturning Roe, and has said decisions on abortion regulations should be left up to individual states. However, the 45th president did say the Arizona law went “too far” with its ban.
Biden will hold two campaign in events in Tampa Tuesday, where he will likely attack a 15-week abortion ban that was permitted by the state Supreme Court to take effect.
The Democrat’s campaign has insisted that they see Florida as “winnable” despite a series of successes for Sunshine State Republicans led by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
