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Im sorry its a pretty wild to blame democrats and democrat voters for this? Are you serious?
The article you just posted states that Biden attempted to overturn the ban, but the Supreme court refused.
Also earlier this year democrats have tried codifying Roe but the GOP shut down (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna161016).
They had Congress under both Obama and Biden but didn't act. Obama even said publicly Roe wasn't a priority.
This is why I blame Democrats. The actions they do take are performative and symbolic. My personal opinion is that they have no intention to codify Roe because it's an issue that brings in a significant amount of donation money on their behalf. (Also why you'll never see Republicans ever support any kind of reasonable, constructive immigration plan. Our politicians are financially incentivized to let emotional issues linger.)
In the past you have stated that the Democrats had control of Congress and the presidency under Biden and Obama, yet they were unable to do things like get a public option in the ACA or codify roe v Wade. However this continues to be a misunderstanding of the situation.
https://19thnews.org/2022/01/congress-codify-abortion-roe/
While I can agree I am disappointed in the inability to get these things done, and Obama saying it was no longer a priority, I don't see how you can pin this all on the Democrats as some kind of monolithic entity.
The fact of the matter is during Obama's terms, there were anti abortion Democrats. These Democrats were enough to keep abortion access out of the ACA and prevent roe being codified.
Fast forward to Bidens terms, and we now have a filibuster rule that requires 60 senators in order to pass stuff in the Senate. There were not 60 senators who supported roe codification when the Democrats "controlled" the Senate.
People who support abortion access are going to vote for Democrats because as time has gone on, the Democratic party has rallied around abortion rights, while Republicans have rallied against it. Opinions changed, and the Democrats are now the party of abortion access. Blaming the current state of things on a monolithic democratic party is in my opinion a bad faith warping of the situation