US President Joseph Biden said today that the Democratic Party, to which he belongs, will maintain its position regarding the protection of abortion rights, but that it does not have the voting power in Congress to translate this right into federal law, reports CNN (CNN ).
The right to abortion in America was guaranteed by the court precedent "Roe v. Wade" (Roe v Wade) from 1973, but the US Supreme Court, in which the majority of conservative judges have been since the beginning of this decade, overturned that precedent at the beginning of the summer of this year , so the regulation of the right to abortion is left to the federal states.
The result has been dramatic restrictions or outright bans on that right in a number of Republican-controlled states.
Biden told reporters in Bali that 60 votes in the Senate are needed to turn Roe v. Wade into federal law, but Democrats -- though they are now seeking a narrow majority -- don't have that majority.
"I don't think the American people can expect much more than that we're going to hold our position" on abortion, Biden said, adding: "I don't think there are enough votes to make (precedent) law unless something unusual happens in the House of Representatives." House (of Congress)".
In the recently concluded congressional mid-term elections, the Democrats retained a narrow majority in the upper chamber, the Senate, but the Republicans look set to take control of the lower House of Representatives.
Biden reiterated his prediction that Democrats would "come within a very close distance of (Republicans) in the House of Representatives."
At least 218 seats are required to control the lower house of Congress. For now, the Republicans have 211 and the Democrats 204 mandates won, and the results of the elections from the westernmost states of the USA, mostly from California, are awaited.
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