:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/mentormedier/KIVBQJLT4UQZEWLYU47A5NRLIQ.jpg "Senate filibuster rules must be changed to ensure abortion rights, Biden – Vårt Land believes")
This means changing the 60-vote requirement to stop the bill from being debated in the Senate. In practice, it only takes 50 votes to pass a law, but the law cannot be passed until the debate is over. Ergo, it’s hard to pass a law without 60 votes.
The filibuster exemption would allow Democrats to pass legislation establishing abortion rights by their current slim majority and without Republican support.
Last week, the US Supreme Court overturned a 1973 decision (Roe v. Wade) that guaranteed the federal right to abortion. It is now up to the state itself to decide whether abortion should be legal or not. In retrospect, about 20 countries have announced that they will ban abortion.
Biden believes the decision has “destabilized” the country, but denies that the United States is diminishing.
“The United States is in a better position to lead the world than ever before,” Biden said at a news conference on the final day of the NATO summit in Madrid.
“But one thing that is destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the US Supreme Court when it comes to not only abolishing Roe v. Wade, but in fact challenging the right to privacy,” the US president continued.
He stressed that the decision did not affect the position of the United States as the world’s largest superpower.
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