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- President Joe Biden slammed the Supreme Court for keeping a Texas abortion law in place.
- The law is one of the most restrictive in the country, banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
- Biden called the Supreme Court's ruling "an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights."
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President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court's decision to keep a Texas law in place that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Biden in a statement called the ruling, handed down at midnight Thursday, "an unprecedented assault on a woman's constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years."
The Supreme Court's decision came 24 hours after the Texas abortion law, one of the most restrictive in the nation, took effect. The law makes no exceptions for cases of incest or rape.
Biden also said the decision "unleashes unconstitutional chaos" as the law invites private citizens to enforce the ban rather than state officials.
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