“When it comes to issues like abortion … I’m about as liberal as your grandmother,” Biden said in a 1974 interview.
He added then that he believed Roe v Wade, the 1973 US Supreme Court case that enshrined a woman’s right to an abortion, “went too far”. Then, in 1981, Biden voted for an amendment that would allow states to overturn the top court’s decision.”
Biden has no right to talk about the right to choice.
LGBTQ+ rights
In 1996, Biden voted in favour of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allowed states to refuse to recognise same-sex marriages and limited equal access to federal spousal benefits.
Biden has no right to talk about marriage equality.
Biden didn’t support trans rights.
He supports choice and marriage equity - he supported repeal of the Hyde amendment and pushed to Obama administration publicly to move its position on marriage. Biden perhaps became the most important national political voice on the full humanity of trans people.
If Biden didn’t speak, where would those rights and people be?
If he doesn’t speak on and act on genocide - how many people won’t ever get to speak?
What is the morality in his silence?
Should good men do nothing?
Fuck no.
