Biden promises to codify abortion rights if Dems win Midterms

Democrats hope to use issue to ‘energise’ voters ahead of polls

Joe Biden delivering a speech
US president told supporters ‘if you care about the right to choose, then you gotta vote’
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Joe Biden has pledged that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will write abortion protections into law – as long as his party takes enough seats in Congress to pass it.

In a speech to the Democratic National Committee event, the US president repeated his message that only Congress can fully restore abortion access to what it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.