WASHINGTON — President Biden started his sprawling national address Thursday night with a warning to Republicans: Women have rebuked attempted abortion limits in past elections, and they will do it again.
Yet the November elections are months after the Supreme Court is expected to decide two pivotal cases in abortion rights. The two conservative justices who have most publicly questioned federal abortion protections and access to the abortion pill mifepristone, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, did not attend the State of the Union, as they rarely do. Conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett also did not make an appearance.
“If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose I promise you: I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again,” Biden said to standing ovations from Democrats and stony faces from Republicans and the six attending Supreme Court justices.
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