Biden is a typical American Catholic: He supports legal abortion around the world.
President Joe Biden, like his Democratic predecessors, will reportedly mark the early days of his tenure by overturning the "global gag rule," a policy dating to the presidency of Ronald Reagan that prevents all international organizations that receive U.S. foreign aid from advocating for abortion access in their own countries or providing clients with abortion services, referrals to other organizations that provide abortions or even information about the existence of legal abortion programs.
But while it could be seen as the typical action of a Democratic president — the rule is lifted every time a Democrat replaces a Republican in the White House, only to be reinstated when a Republican wins the presidency — it's particularly notable to some commentators this time because Biden is a practicing Roman Catholic, and only the second to win the presidency after John F. Kennedy.
Commentators from both within and outside the Catholic faith typically express (often feigned) surprise that a practicing Catholic might advance pro-choice policies, but Biden’s positions — like those of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Senate president pro tempore, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., for instance — point to a simple truth that’s often overlooked: Most American Catholics support reproductive choice.
A survey of U.S. Catholics during the 2020 election demonstrated what so many of us in the faith already knew: Abortion is simply not the top-line concern for Catholics that the church hierarchy and the media believe it to be, and a broad majority of us do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. Furthermore, Catholics are almost twice as likely to vote for candidates who support policies providing safe and legal abortion than for those who fail to do so.
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