{"id":30999,"date":"2021-01-22T17:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30999"},"modified":"2021-01-22T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T01:16:04","slug":"biden-reaffirms-commitment-to-enshrining-roe-v-wade-in-federal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30999","title":{"rendered":"Biden reaffirms commitment to enshrining Roe v. Wade in federal law\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden marked the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark ruling establishing the right to an abortion by reaffirming his support for enshrining abortion rights in federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Biden ran on \u201ccodifying\u201d Roe v. Wade, pushed by abortion rights advocates, as a response to the growing number of abortion restrictions passed by state legislatures in recent years and a federal judiciary that has been flooded with Trump nominees, including the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe,\u201d the White House said in a statement Friday.\u00a0\u201cIn the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Trump administration was fairly limited in what it could do to restrict access to abortion, restrictions at the state legislature have proliferated in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden marked the 48th anniversary&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31000,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999\/revisions\/31000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}