


President Joe Biden addressed the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision early in his State of the Union address Thursday night, berating the justices of the United States Supreme Court — all in attendance for the president’s speech — over the Court’s ruling.
“In the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court wrote the following, and with all due respect, justices, ‘women are not without political power — excuse me, electoral or political power,'” Biden said. “You’re about to realize just how much you were right about that. Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women, but they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2020 [sic], and we’ll win again in 2024.”
He then outlined his second-term plans on the issue to a Democratic standing ovation, pledging to codify abortion rights into law.
“If you — if you the American people send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
Biden also claimed — falsely — that the Dobbs decision precipitated the Alabama state supreme court decision on in vitro fertilization, rendered moot by a bill signed into law Wednesday, saying the Supreme Court “unleashed” Alabama’s judiciary.
As National Review has previously clarified, the Court did not mention IVF in its Roe ruling, the Alabama decision contended that the state’s wrongful-death standards addressed unborn children even before the Dobbs decision, and the majority in Alabama’s state supreme court mentioned Dobbs only once in its majority opinion, with two mentions coming in the footnotes — but only for the purpose of describing the history of protections for the unborn.