In his 2024 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called on Congress to help him achieve his 2020 campaign promise to codify Roe v Wade.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 to overturn Roe, ending nearly 50 years of federally protected abortion access.
"If you, the American people. 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 March 7.
He can't do it alone.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., introduced the Women's Health Protection Act of 2023, which would prohibit governmental restrictions on access to abortion. But it has no Republican co-sponsors and didn't advance.
We have been tracking Biden's campaign promise to codify Roe v. Wade, one of about 100 promises on our Biden Promise Tracker. The lack of 10 Republicans to overcome an expected filibuster has stalled Biden's efforts on codification. That lack of a path forward continued even after Democrats kept narrow control of the Senate in the midterms.
Biden's speech showed this remains a top issue for him during his campaign, but without movement in Congress, we continue to rate Biden's promise to codify Roe v. Wade Stalled.
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