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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 19, 2022

President Joe Biden yesterday promised to send Congress a bill codifying abortion rights in January if Democrats control the legislature next year. He said it will be the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill and promised to sign it, the Associated Press reports. As he has done in the past, Biden emphasized that only Congress can fully restore abortion access to what it was before the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade. If however, the Congress is in Republican hands, he vowed to reject any abortion restrictions that may come to his desk.