Biden: Mainstream’ Religions Agree with Roe v. Wade

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Joe Biden: Constitution Gives Right to ‘Abort a Child’ — ‘Mainstream’ Religions Agree with Roe v. Wade


CHARLIE SPIERING
3 May 20226,980


Joe Biden further reacted to a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, criticizing the “radical” argument against a constitutional right to abortion.



“The idea that we’re gonna make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court I think goes way overboard,” Biden said.



Biden spoke to reporters about the draft opinion as he left Washington, DC, for a trip to Alabama to visit a Lockheed Martin manufacturing facility.



During his remarks, Biden falsely claimed that all mainstream religions believe the beginning of human life is open to interpretation.



“Look, think what Roe says. Roe says what all basic mainstream religions have historically concluded — that the right — that the existence of a human life and being is a question. Is it at the moment of conception? Is it six months? Is it six weeks?”



Biden failed to mention that the Catholic Church, of which he claims to be a member, teaches that life begins at the moment of conception.

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Franklin Graham Obliterates Biden's Claim That the 'Right' to Abortion Comes from Being a 'Child of God'



By Grant Atkinson

May 5, 2022 at 2:49pm


On Wednesday, Joe Biden said abortion was an inherent right God gave everyone.



One day later, the Rev. Franklin Graham swiftly debunked that claim.



Biden made the comment during a news conference at the White House.



“This is about a lot more than abortion. … This reminds me of the debate with Robert Bork. Bork believed the only reason you had any inherent rights was because the government gave them to you,” the president said.



He was referring to former President Ronald Reagan’s rejected nominee to the Supreme Court. As head of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, Biden presided over Bork’s confirmation hearings in 1987 and voted against his confirmation.



Trending: Franklin Graham Obliterates Biden's Claim That the 'Right' to Abortion Comes from Being a 'Child of God'

“I said, I believe I have the rights that I have not because the government gave them to me, which you believe, but because I am just a child of God, I exist. I delegated by joining this union here to delegate some … rights I have to the government for social good.”


The first half of Biden’s assertion is a traditional American view. The Founding Fathers believed humans had inherent rights that were not given by the government, and that idea is woven into the country’s founding documents.



Yet Biden’s argument in this case differs from the views of conservatives in two main ways.


First, conservatives hold that the government exists to protect humans’ inherent rights. This is a fundamentally different belief from the one Biden expressed when he said he delegated some rights “to the government for social good.”



While Biden’s view of the role of government is not a conservative one, this disagreement is purely political. It simply represents the difference in the way modern liberals and conservatives view the government’s purpose.



The second way the president’s statement breaks with the view of conservatives is both political and moral, and this is the one with which Graham took issue.



While conservatives agree humans have inherent rights from God, they do not believe abortion is one of those rights. Nothing in the Bible suggests humans have the right to end an innocent life.

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