Biden and the Abortion Issue

Among white women, 10% of 2016 pregnancies resulted in abortions, while black women accounted for 29% of the cases (meaning black women are 3.5 times more likely than whites to have one).

The abortion rate of non-metropolitan women is about half that of women who live in metropolitan counties, according to the National Abortion Federation (NAF).

The abortion rate of women with Medicaid coverage, NAF calculated, is three times as high as that of other women.

According to Guttmacher Institute's anonymous polling of 1,209 women, the following reasons were given for choosing abortion:

• 0.5% were victims of rape
• 3% had fetal health problems
• 4% had physical health problems
• 4% said their pregnancy would interfere with education or career
• 7% felt they were not mature enough to raise a child
• 8% did not want to be a single mother
• 19% were finished having children
• 23% said they couldn't afford a baby
• 25% said they weren't ready for a child
• 6% were "others"

In this writer's opinion, these figures hardly represent a deep moral thread. They represent 99.5% of instances where rape or incest did not apply.

While Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claims he will protect a woman's "right to choose" and fight to keep abortion legal, his position flies directly in the face of his claimed Roman Catholic faith.

For his part, President Trump has expressed support for banning abortion overall, except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life. Biden wants to pass a federal law that protects a woman's "right to choose."

"Right to choose"— just where does that term come from?

Well, it is not in the Constitution. Rather, it is merely a statement made over and over since Roe v. Wade that seems to be accepted as gospel. This is much in the vein of the concept that if a lie is repeated often enough, people will assume it is true.

While President Trump has delivered on his promise to curtail federal funding for abortions, Biden has changed his position on the Hyde Amendment, which prevents the use of federal funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the woman.

For literally decades, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment. Only when pressured during the Democratic presidential debates, and further by the likes of socialist-leaning Democrats, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, did he change his position.

This fact alone should both outrage and scare Catholics and other religious voters in the United States. If elected, Biden, it seems, will toe the line of the most radical leftists in the country, including the likes of Virginia's Democrat governor, Ralph Northam, who favors infanticide. Biden would thereby toss aside his Church's doctrine much as he would discard the weekly trash.

In 1973, Biden claimed that Roe v. Wade went "too far." In fact, he voted against the law that allowed Medicaid-funded abortions, and in 1981 he voted to remove the exemptions for victims of rape and incest.

However, he now "firmly believes that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and should not be overturned." How he squares this with his Catholic faith is unknown and troubling, to say the least.

When he was roundly criticized for his previous faith-based position on abortion, Biden quickly and vehemently changed that position.

This alone is reason to mistrust Biden. And if one cannot trust the former vice-president on something so important as his faith, how can one trust him as the leader of the free world?