Joe Biden Abandoned Texas Women to the Republican Agenda
President Joe Biden’s fumbling withdrawal from engagement in a decades-long conflict will have disastrous consequences for the people he’s abandoned. His callousness toward so-called allies is stunning, and his betrayal will endanger the lives of millions of women. I’m not talking about Afghanistan. I’m talking about abortion.
As Tuesday turned into Wednesday, a half century of abortion rights disappeared in Texas, as the Supreme Court allowed a ban on almost all abortions to go into effect, without a single peep from President Biden or anybody in his administration.
Unlike his withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, Biden’s abdication of responsibility in the war over American women’s bodily autonomy wasn’t announced in advance. There wasn’t a long draw-down. The military did not provide safe passage for women into the Dallas-Fort Worth airport and then hustle them to New Mexico in cargo planes. Quite the contrary.