Biden campaign portrays Texas abortion restrictions as Trump’s ban

President Joe Biden‘s campaign is underscoring former President Donald Trump‘s role in restricting abortion rights across the country after Texas’s Supreme Court prevented a woman from undergoing the procedure.

The campaign’s amplification of Kate Cox’s lawsuit and Trump’s appointment of federal Supreme Court justices who helped repeal Roe v. Wade comes as the former president remains the 2024 Republican primary front-runner. Aides have been warning that Republicans will pursue a national abortion ban after the issue energized voters before last year’s midterm elections.

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“Last night, a group of judges in Texas told a woman, Kate Cox, that she cannot receive healthcare that could determine if she lives or dies,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez told reporters Tuesday. “This is the reality of Donald Trump’s bans.”

“After the Texas Supreme Court denied her life-saving care, Kate had to leave her home state to seek the healthcare she urgently needs,” she said. “It’s happening right here in the United States of America and it’s happening because of Donald Trump.”

Cox sought an abortion after being advised her fetus had a fatal condition and would be risking her future fertility without terminating the pregnancy. Texas’s Supreme Court blocked her abortion while it considered a lower court’s ruling permitting it to proceed.

Communications director Michael Tyler pledged to ensure the public understands Trump’s role as abortion-related ballot initiatives next year are considered nationwide. Tyler expanded the campaign’s argument to what he described as Republican attacks on “rights and freedoms,” including undermining gun control measures and so-called Bidenomics.

“Trump promises to rule as a dictator on day one so he can force through his unpopular and toxic agenda,” he said. “Trump is providing us with new evidence of not just how extreme he was when he was in office, but the amount of harm that he would inflict on the American people if he’s able to return to power.”

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Tyler added that the campaign was prepared regardless of whether Trump becomes the Republican nominee, contending all the candidates have “been in a race to mirror each other on the fringes of their party.”

Cox’s lawyers announced she had departed Texas for an abortion before the state Supreme Court’s final decision Monday. The court has asked Texas’s medical board to produce more guidance on the state’s medical emergency exception, which it found Cox had failed to satisfy.