President Joe Biden on Friday warned that if Republicans win next year’s elections, they will go after the right to privacy that has provided the basis for legal protections for same-sex marriage and access to contraception. “These guys are serious, man.
I — I said it when the decision came out, and people looked at me like I was exaggerating,” he said. “But they’re not stopping here.” Biden delivered the remarks during an event hosted by America’s largest pro-choice organizations in commemoration of the first anniversary of the U.S.
Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Americans’ constitutional right to abortion. Joining the president at the Mayflower Hotel in D.C.
were his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Also in attendance were senior administration officials and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who spoke before Biden took the stage.