Biden receives endorsement from top abortion rights groups
Cami Mondeaux
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Three of the nation’s top abortion rights groups endorsed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for reelection in 2024, offering a key boost to their campaign on the eve of the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
EMILY’s List, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Planned Parenthood Action Fund each offered endorsements on Friday morning, hailing the Biden administration for its policies on abortion rights and efforts to protect access to abortion. The groups painted the pair’s reelection as crucial to the country’s future of healthcare and to “push anti-abortion extremists out of office.”
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“There is so much at stake. We know, clear as day, that if anti-abortion politicians gain control of the White House, they will exploit their power toward their ultimate goal: a national abortion ban,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement. “That is why we must reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris: people we can trust to keep rebuilding a path forward, because we know the journey to rebuilding our rights will be met with challenges.”
EMILY’s List, a prominent pro-abortion rights group, specifically cited Harris’s voting record on abortion, painting the vice president as crucial to the ticket. The support follows multiple endorsements from the group during Harris’s Senate runs.
“Vice President Harris has been a steadfast fighter throughout her career for women and their abortion rights–a role that is more important than ever before,” the group said in a statement. “Every day, Kamala Harris lives the directive of her mother that she may be the first, but she should make sure she’s not the last.”
The string of endorsements gives Biden and Harris ammunition as they head into the 2024 cycle, with Democrats looking to weaponize abortion to motivate voter turnout. Abortion emerged as a major topic during the midterm elections, which many in the party credit for their better-than-expected performance.
A recent survey conducted by the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research in conjunction with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee found that a majority of voters in key battleground states are concerned about Republicans passing a nationwide abortion ban, possibly giving Democrats an edge heading into 2024. Roughly 65% of all voters in those states say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, including about 40% of Republicans, the poll showed.
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The pledges of support come just one day before the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended nationwide access to abortion and returned the question of the procedure’s legality to the states.
Since doing so, lawmakers across the country have enacted further restrictions on the procedure or banned it altogether. At least 14 states have enacted partial or total bans, while others have restricted access.