Today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris earned a critical early endorsement from leading reproductive rights groups Planned Parenthood, Emily’s List and NARAL-Pro Choice America, on the eve of the one year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling. The Biden-Harris administration has been a powerful advocate in defending and expanding reproductive rights. Protecting and preserving access to reproductive health care and safe abortions will always be a top priority for the Biden-Harris administration, and President Biden and Vice President Harris will work tirelessly to make history and codify Roe v. Wade into federal law in their second term.

Tweets:

@PPact: When people want to know where @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris
stand on reproductive freedom, we tell them: they are unwavering. For that, today us alongside @NARAL and @EMILYSList are excited to announce our 2024 endorsement of Joe Biden for President. #AbortionIsHealthcare

With our eyes on 2024, we’re rising up to restore and expand abortion rights in all fifty states! Let’s gooo! 🔥

That’s @KamalaHarris.

@LaphonzaButler: One year ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, it’s become more important than ever to stop the anti-choice Republican agenda–and @kamalaharris is at the forefront of this fight.

President @JoeBiden: You ain’t seen nothing yet, Court.

@FinnyK: President Biden just pointed out the strength of women’s voices to fight for Roe v. Wade and as he said, you ain’t seen nothing yet! @NARAL @emilyslist @PPFA

@AliceOllstein: .@POTUS up now, hitting Rs for calling for national abortion restrictions and pledging to veto them if they ever pass Congress. The mention of Lindsey Graham’s name elicits boos from the crowd.

@JulieZebrak: “To ensure women are making progress, women must be at every table where decisions are being made.” @POTUS

@Acyn: Biden: The Dobbs decision practically dared the women of America to be heard. This is what the majority wrote: Women are not without electoral or political power. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

@AkaylaGardner: “There’s something happening in our country right now. Some people would suggest that the measure of strength is based on who you’ beat down. That’s perverse,” @VP says, seemingly a reference to Trump.

“Empathy is a true quality of a true leader, and that is the true Joe Biden.”

@JuliaJohnson: ​​Pro choice orgs putting Harris front and center in their endorsements of Biden and Harris for re-election [QUOTED TWEET]

@JuliaZebrak: The @VP is all about freedom and the foundational principles — as well as the dignity and autonomy to which all people are entitled. She’s been a fighter in this space of reproductive health since her time as a District Attorney.

@AliceOllstein: .@mintimm up next with @NARAL’s endorsement for Biden/Harris: “We are in a state of emergency… From one president to another, this is a big effing deal.”

@AkaylaGardner: At an abortion-rights event Friday, @POTUS and @VP rallied voters around a pitch to elect Democrats nationwide to enshrine federal abortion rights into law. Republicans, Biden said, won’t stop “until they get a national ban.”

Latest w/ @JenniferJJacobs: [LINK]

@AkaylaGardner: “Women put Joe and Kamala in the White House, and we will do it again,” @FLOTUS says at an abortion-rights event in DC.

Associated Press: Planned Parenthood, Emily’s List and NARAL-Pro Choice America endorse Joe Biden in 2024 race
[Colleen Long, 6/22/23]

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“I think that President Biden has been an incredibly valuable partner, along with Vice President Harris, in fighting back against the onslaught of attacks that we have seen,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

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Mimi Timmaraju, head of NARAL-Pro Choice America, said the Biden administration has worked really well to raise awareness. “They’ve also been strategically smart about deploying all the resources they can to really support providers and patients.”

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For Emily’s List, an advocacy group for Democratic female candidates, Harris is a powerful symbol, said president Laphonza Butler.

“She is the highest serving woman who has broken the hard glass ceiling of representing women in the White House,” Butler said. “This is the administration using every bully pulpit it can to advance reproductive health and freedom across the country. ”

Associated Press: As Biden rallies for abortion rights, conservatives a mile away are pushing a 15-week national ban
[Colleen Long, 6/23/23]

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Biden and fellow Democrats have already seen the power of the issue: A majority of Americans want legalized abortion nationwide. In the leadup to the 2022 midterm elections, many political pundits dismissed the issue, but it was among the top concerns for voters, who consistently rejected efforts to restrict abortion in the states when given the chance.

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“MAGA Republicans promising a national abortion ban makes the stakes for reelecting President Biden and Vice President Harris all the more important,” she said in a statement. She added that the organizing power of the three groups was essential to Democrats’ strong performance in the 2022 midterms and will be again.

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“We’re really trying to do three separate things all related to each other,” said Jen Klein, a top Biden aide on gender policy. “The first is increased and expanded contraceptive options. The second is to lower out-of-pocket costs. And the third is to raise awareness about what options are available.”

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“The longer these bans are in place, the more people either will know someone who has experienced something or read a terrible story,” said Mini Timmaraju, head of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “They have to make a decision about where to go to college based on the states with the bans. They have to make a decision about whether to practice medicine based on an abortion ban. It’s permeating everyday life now, and it’s having unintended consequences.”

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For Emily’s List, an advocacy group for Democratic female candidates, Harris, the first female vice president, is a powerful symbol, president Laphonza Butler said.

“She is the highest-serving woman who has broken the hard glass ceiling of representing women in the White House,” Butler said. “This is the administration using every bully pulpit it can to advance reproductive health and freedom across the country. ”

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Reuters: Biden slams Republicans on abortion rights a year after Roe repeal
[Nandita Bose and Steve Holland, 6/23/23]

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday marked the one-year anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to an abortion by telling a rally of abortion-rights supporters that Republicans will regret their efforts to limit reproductive rights.

“The majority wrote, ‘Women are not without an electoral or political power.’ You ain’t seen nothing yet,” Biden said of the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision. “Make no mistake: this election is about freedom on the ballot once again.”

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Over the past year, Biden has signed multiple executive orders aimed at shoring up access to abortion rights, including the ability to access abortion pills or travel out of states that have banned the procedures.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who also attended the rally, has taken a key role on the issue, traveling around the country to meet with state legislators, local leaders and advocates.

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The biggest expansions of abortion rights over the past year occurred in states, including Michigan and Minnesota, where Democrats control both the legislature and the governor’s office.

“The Dobbs decision, the court practically dared the women of America to be heard. This is what the majority wrote, ‘women are not without electoral or political power.’ You ain’t seen nothing yet, court,” Biden said at the Mayflower Hotel in D.C.

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He added that in the midterm elections “they did find out.” Democrats experienced better-than-expected midterm results and in every state where abortion right were on the ballot, voters opted to protect them.

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An NBC News poll released Thursday found 61 percent of Americans said they disapprove of the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe, up from 58 percent last August.

The president also criticized Republicans for their focus on restricting abortions, arguing that in the U.S. there are other issues to tackle, including that there isn’t guaranteed paid leave.

“There’s so much more to do, and we’re fighting over abortion?” he said.

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[Nancy Cook and Jordan Fabian, 6/23/23]

Democrats will unleash an abortion-rights messaging blitz on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, seizing on an issue that remains a vulnerability for Republicans heading into the 2024 election.
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Republican lawmakers have passed state laws that severely restrict women’s access to abortion and limit the use of medications like mifepristone, which is used in abortions and, in some cases, miscarriages. A White House official said one in three women now live in a state with abortion restrictions.

“Voters will be even more engaged than we’ve seen previously because this is affecting their daily lives,” said Ryan Stitzlein, senior national political director for NARAL Pro-Choice America. Stitzlein said his group will be “making sure that we’re holding folks accountable for their positions, particularly Republicans.”

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“What Democrats are going to be able to do come 2024 is to tell the story of a party that literally believes that American women should be second-class citizens, should not have the same rights as men,” said Maria Cardona, Democratic National Committee member and strategist.

CNN: Biden marks anniversary of Dobbs decision by calling on Congress to ‘restore the protections of Roe v. Wade’
[Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, 6/23/23]

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“MAGA Republicans made clear that they don’t intend to stop with the Dobbs decision. No, they won’t, until they get a national ban on abortion,” Biden said, promising to issue a veto if a national ban is ever passed by Congress.

The Biden administration and campaign have been making an all-hands-on-deck push for reproductive rights messaging this week ahead of Saturday’s anniversary of the ruling that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade, harnessing the moment on an issue that animated voters in 2022 and they believe will do so again in 2024.

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Friday’s event comes after Harris held a roundtable conversation on reproductive rights on MSNBC Tuesday and is also set to give a major speech on the Saturday anniversary in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And first lady Dr. Jill Biden hosted an emotional conversation Tuesday with four women who shared their stories of how the Dobbs decision and subsequent state bans on abortion impacted their own medical care.

“The Dobbs decision was devastating, and Joe is doing everything he can do to fight back,” the first lady said. “But the only way that we can ensure that every woman has the fundamental freedoms she deserves is for Congress to make the protections of Roe v. Wade the law of the land once again.”

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The event also comes as the campaign begins to build coalitions and momentum around key issues important to Democratic voters. Last week, Biden attended an event rolling out an endorsement from four major environmental groups. He also held an event with gun safety activists in Connecticut. And over the weekend, he touted support from leading unions with remarks focused on the economy.

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[Eugene Daniels, 6/22/23]

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“There is so much at stake. We know, clear as day, that if anti-abortion politicians gain control of the White House, they will exploit their power toward their ultimate goal: a national abortion ban,” Planned Parenthood Action Fund president Alexis McGill Johnson said in a statement. “That is why we must re-elect President Biden and Vice President Harris: people we can trust to keep rebuilding a path forward, because we know the journey to rebuilding our rights will be met with challenges.”

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The endorsements are not unexpected, given Biden’s status as an incumbent and considering how front and center abortion rights have been to the Biden administration. Last week, a group of leading environmental associations and top unions also endorsed the president’s reelection effort.

This would be the third large endorsement the nascent campaign has received in the last two weeks.

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[Cami Mondeaux, 6/23/23]

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“There is so much at stake. We know, clear as day, that if anti-abortion politicians gain control of the White House, they will exploit their power toward their ultimate goal: a national abortion ban,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement. “That is why we must reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris: people we can trust to keep rebuilding a path forward, because we know the journey to rebuilding our rights will be met with challenges.”

EMILY’s List, a prominent pro-abortion rights group, specifically cited Harris’s voting record on abortion, painting the vice president as crucial to the ticket. The support follows multiple endorsements from the group during Harris’s Senate runs.

“Vice President Harris has been a steadfast fighter throughout her career for women and their abortion rights — a role that is more important than ever before,” the group said in a statement. “Every day, Kamala Harris lives the directive of her mother that she may be the first, but she should make sure she’s not the last.”

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The Messenger: ‘They Are Going to Find Out Again’: Biden Highlights Abortion’s Electoral Power
[Dan Merica, 6/23/23]

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“To state the obvious… this fight really matters. It really, really matters,” Biden said at a speech where he accepted the endorsement for a trio of groups that support abortion rights. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Biden said that Republicans didn’t “have any clue of the power” they unleashed when nearly five decades of abortion precedent was rescinded.

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Biden and Harris were lauded throughout the event, which comes the day before the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, as overseeing the most pro-choice administration to date.

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“Not agonizing, organizing,” said former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who urged Democrats to turn the pain felt by the Dobbs decision into political energy ahead of the 2024 election.

Harris, speaking before Biden, framed the fight over reproductive rights as a debate over “freedom.”

“We are fighting on behalf of foundational principles,” the vice president said. “We stand for the freedom of every American, including the freedom of every person everywhere to make decisions about their own body, their own healthcare.”

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[Mariana Labbate, 6/22/23]

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to get endorsements Friday from Planned Parenthood, EMILY’s List and NARAL Pro-Choice.

The announcements are expected to happen during an event that will mark one year since the Supreme Court ended the national right to abortion with its verdict in Dobbs v. Jackson. Both Biden and Harris are expected to attend.

“I think that President Biden has been an incredibly valuable partner, along with Vice President Harris, in fighting back against the onslaught of attacks that we have seen,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told the Associated Press.

[Chris Pandolfo, 6/23/23]

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In contrast, Biden has called on Congress to pass legislation that would codify federal protections for abortion rights. The president also signed executive orders intended to safeguard access to abortion and make abortion pills more available. And the Biden administration has brought together leaders from all 50 states to talk strategy on how to expand access and work together to help people in more restrictive states.

“President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are the strongest advocates for reproductive freedom ever to occupy the White House, and NARAL Pro-Choice America proudly endorses their reelection,” said NARAL Pro-Choice America president Mini Timmaraju. “It’s as simple as this: Abortion matters to Americans. In elections since the Supreme Court took away our right to abortion, voters have mobilized in massive numbers to elect Democrats who will fight to restore it. Americans know the extremist GOP stacked the courts to take away our freedoms, and they won’t forget it.”

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EMILY’s List, a group that backs female candidates who support abortion rights, praised Vice President Kamala Harris as a powerful symbol for women.

“She is the highest serving woman who has broken the hard glass ceiling of representing women in the White House,” EMILY’S List president Laphonza Butler said. “This is the administration using every bully pulpit it can to advance reproductive health and freedom across the country.”

The Guardian: Biden puts abortion rights at center of campaign on Roe reversal anniversary
[Maya Yang, 6/23/23]

Joe Biden on Friday put reproductive rights squarely in the middle of his 2024 re-election campaign as the US president hosted a rally based around defending abortion rights, notched three high-profile endorsements from groups dedicated to the issue, and announced an executive order aimed at boosting access to contraception.

The moves came in stark contrast to the Republican field of candidates, many of whom were attending the Faith & Freedom Coalition annual conference in Washington DC.

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Biden and the Democrats, meanwhile, are on the attack on abortion, pointing out the huge loss of reproductive freedoms for millions of women since the US’s highest court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade decision that had protected abortion freedoms.

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Biden has said he will work to protect reproductive health care, including enshrining abortion rights in federal law. He is expected to convey that message in remarks on Friday at a rally with the first lady, Jill Biden, Harris and the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff.

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“Contraception is an essential component of reproductive health care that has only become more important in the wake of Dobbs and the ensuing crisis in women’s access to healthcare,” Biden said.

Biden is seeking to strengthen access to “affordable, high-quality contraception and family planning services”, the statement added. It’s his third executive order on reproductive health care access since the Dobbs ruling.

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Washington Post: Biden, GOP rivals in split-screen showing stark divide in post-Roe America
[Marianne LeVine, Maeve Reston and Toluse Olorunnipa, 6/23/23]

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The split-screen highlighted the country’s stark political divide over abortion on the eve of the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Democrats, emboldened by a midterm election in which many voters were galvanized to vote for their candidates, are eying a similar playbook this cycle. Republicans, still reeling from those losses and confronting divisions about the path forward, are facing renewed pressure from their base to embrace tighter restrictions, even as some in the party are wary of the potential fallout in a general election.
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Now, as he makes the case for his own reelection, Biden is aiming to show his base that he is committed to fighting for abortion rights, aides said. He has pledged to sign a bill codifying the protections of Roe if elected to a second term, and said that, in the meantime, he would use the levers of presidential power to protect the right to an abortion.

“I insist that we’re going to pass legislation in a majority of the states reinstating Roe v. Wade,” Biden told donors in California this week. “That’s the only way we can get back these rights.”