Biden’s discomfort with abortion comes under scrutiny

President Biden’s longtime discomfort with the issue of abortion, fueled by his Catholicism and his personal and complex stance on access, has come under scrunity this week with the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that shows a majority of justices supporting the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

The president is often criticized for attempting to balance his faith with his support for abortion access. But Biden hasn’t publicaly used the word abortion out loud during his presidency until this week and he also hasn’t called for an end to the filibuster in order for Congress to codify Roe v. Wade as he has for other legislative matters.

The mere use of the word abortion by Biden in comments to reporters on Tuesday and Wednesday was striking amid the term being blasted seemingly everywhere following Monday night’s unprecedented publication by Politico.