Former vice president Joe Biden on Wednesday criticized the Supreme Court for upholding Trump’s religious liberty protections against the Obama-era abortion/contraceptive mandate and pledged to overturn them if elected president.
The presumptive Democratic nominee released a statement saying he was “disappointed” in the high court’s decision, which by a vote of 7-2 upheld a Trump administration 2018 rule that exempted employers with religious and moral objections from the abortion/contraceptive mandate.
The Little Sisters of the Poor, an institute of Catholic nuns who serve the elderly poor, brought the lawsuit.
“Health care is a right that should not be dependent on race, gender, income or zip code,” Biden said. “Yet as a result of today’s decision, countless women are at risk of losing access to affordable, preventive care. I am disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that will make it easier for the Trump-Pence Administration to continue to strip health care from women — attempting to carve out broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s commitment to giving all women free access to recommended contraception.”
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, requires the coverage of “preventive care” but doesn’t define what the phrase means. Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services…
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