During his NBC town hall on Monday, Joe Biden reiterated his unyielding support for abortion on demand, putting to rest the idea that there is a pro-life case to vote for Biden.
When talking about the possible confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Biden said, “We don’t know exactly what she will do, although the expectation is that she may very well move to overrule Roe. The only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation making Roe the law of the land.”
The Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade, and its modification in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, have served to invalidate pro-life legislation on arrival. This is what Biden wants enshrined into law and, after his flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment, he wants taxpayers to fund abortions directly.
However, this hasn’t stopped some who call themselves pro-life from backing Biden. A new group named Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden says the Democratic agenda is more “biblically balanced,” even if they claim to disagree with Biden on abortion. Poverty and healthcare are pro-life issues too, they claim, and Trump is too divisive to be pro-life.
But Biden is not pro-life even on these terms. Aside from his abortion radicalism, Biden is also divisive, and the divisions he has spurred on still resonate today. Those wondering why Supreme Court fights have intensified need only look at how Biden, along with the late and awful Ted Kennedy, smeared Robert Bork to keep him off the Supreme Court. Want to know why Republicans turned to an aggressive candidate like Trump? Biden helped, saying that the milquetoast ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would put black Americans back in chains.
The Democratic agenda also doesn’t get to lay claim to the issues of poverty and healthcare. The progressive dream that is California has the worst poverty rate in the country when adjusted for cost of living, and the state also has a massive homelessness problem. Obamacare was a healthcare disaster, but Biden wants to bring back its worst features.
Pro-lifers have no obligation to vote for Republicans, of course. Candidates must earn their votes. But there is no discernible pro-life case for Joe Biden or the modern Democratic Party, which is no less divisive than the GOP, has only become more radical in its permissiveness of abortion, and has no record of fixing these other pro-life causes.
