White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back Tuesday on criticism of the Biden administration’s “reactionary” response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Jean-Pierre’s comments came during Tuesday’s White House press briefing, marking 102 days since the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling.
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“I just want to get back to your — what you were saying about, alluding to on abortion and the criticism that we’ve received there on the Dobbs decision,” she told reporters when asked if President Joe Biden will seek to be more vocal ahead of the Supreme Court’s fall slate of cases. “I want to be very clear because I think it’s important to note, and I’ve noted it a couple of times, is when the leak of the document happened, we did take action.”
“We did take action in those weeks leading up to the actual decision, and that was meeting with groups that were meeting internally, trying to figure out the best way that we were going to take, that we were going to respond if, indeed, the leaked document at the time during that moment was true,” Jean-Pierre continued.
Jean-Pierre claimed that Biden has “always” supported “women’s rights and women’s ability to make a decision on their own healthcare.”
“He was very clear what this could lead to, right? This could lead to not just Roe, the Dobbs decision, but it could also lead to marriage equality, contraception,” she said. “He was one of the first voices that sounded the alarm on what this could potentially — down the path, a dangerous path that the Dobbs decision could take us to, and we’re seeing that we’re seeing efforts of that currently from Republican officials.”
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Later on Tuesday, Biden will hold his second meeting of the White House Gender Policy Council following the Dobbs ruling earlier this year.
You can watch Tuesday’s briefing in full below.
